hard drive not showing in bios

[deggers316]

i have windows 7 on a 40gb disk (ide) i installed a large hard drive (sata), did a clone disk using easeus, now it shows in my computer but not in my bios and cant get it to boot from the larger disk i re-cloned it to no avail even did a check disk but when i get the option to boot from windows 7 or an earlier set up and select windows 7 on my new disk i get a screen saying - fault windows\sytem32\winload.exe
0x000000.exe
how do i get it to show in my computer
i cant find any relevant help in google

[Buenchico]

Seagate (who make hard drives) offer these suggestions:
http://seagate.custkb...arch.jsp?DocId=168595

Chris

[deggers316]

thanks it a western

[deggers316]

it is spinning the cables are connected correctly i have another sata hard drive on there too and that does not show either although they show in my comp and are accessible
the pci sata card is installed with the correct drivers

[Buenchico]

I suspect that the cause of your problem might well be common to all makes but, in case it's something specific to Western drives, start here:
http://support.wdc.com/

[galeck1947]

Have you enabled your bios to read both ide and sata some motherboards wont recognise both you will have to check this . Your best thing to do is a clean install of windows 7 on the sata drive .Ide isn't the way anymore as it too slow compared to sata

[deggers316]

i give up on this one!
i cant do an install on this disk it not recognized in my bios when i select the western large drive to install win7on it says will not install on this drive,
its formatted its on ntfs it's primary / active and has had a full check disk, the disk is new btw
it shows in my computer and is accessible to load and prog /pics/docs etc

[deggers316]

ive enable all i can in the bios to accept it

[SlackAlice]

Sorry, I don't have the answer.
Are you saying your mobo does not have sata drives normally, but you added a pci card to add them? I think your problem may lie with the pci card and would work from that angle instead.

[deggers316]

it did have two sata plugs on the motherboard but due to flimsy connection brackets they came off leaving the bare connections so have had to add a sata pci card
yeh think your right it could be that because they showed in bios before i added that
thanks

[AlBags]

What does Disk Management say?

[ChuckFickens]

You've not mentioned what computer it is.... but....

You may need to make sure the SATA card is in PCI slot 1 for it to be bootable from, you may also need to enable some options in the BIOS to tell the computer to look for a PCI controller on startup, this may be called scan for system or option ROMS or similar

All the above depends on exactly what motherboard and BIOS you have so with out knowing a checking the motherboard manual it's all educated guessing.

[ChuckFickens]

OH, and incidentally, it will never show in the BIOS. because it's not directly connected to the motherboard.

On top of what I said above, you may need to press F2 (I think, or is it F6.) during windows setup when it asks you to install third party SCSI or RAID drivers (it on one of the first dark blue screens, it will say what to press along the bottom of the screen) and then remove the windows DVD briefly and insert the CD that came with the SATA drive and you would need to set your computer to boot from SCSI (or possibly PCI) in the BIOS.

[deggers316]

thanks to all
chuck thanks for telling me about it not showing in bois
win7 has sata drivers on that system so no need to install any from the disk it came with
'ill persevere
allbags in partion management they show up ok