Need help with boot error from a 300GB SATA HDD attached to a Silicon Image Sil3112ACT144 SATA controller.?
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just reinstall windows, and if it happens again you have a bad hard drive or controller... \n\nif you try swapping out the controller with a known working control and it happens again, the problem isn't following the control. continue on by trying a different drive of the same type, problem still happens, you know it's not that specific drive.
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I suspect that you are using eide drive now as sata drives are fairly new. Just look at the existing hard drive and if it uses a wide ribbon cable to connect to the motherboard you use old style ide/pata if it has small connectors with small cables it is sata.
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You need to check the user manual whether your system supports SATA. FYI you need different interface on the motherboard in order to use SATA hdds
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I think linux might detect SATA as a SCSI drive. On some motherboards, Windows does not recognize SATA either and needs the floppy disk with drivers. \nI think I had luck with Fedora Core 4 and SATA drives. Also try Xandros.
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MORE INFO NEEDED\n\nFirst check if the jumpers are set correctly, and the harddrive is connected correctly. If it still won't pick up in the bios you are in trouble. If it's a new harddrive and you have an old pc try limiting the saize to 32GB using the jumper setting listed on the drive.\n\nIf the drive always worked and stopped being detected one day it could be problem with the harddrive or your IDE controller. it would more likely be the drive though. If you can borrow an external USB 2 drive enclosure. Install the drive into it (set jumper to master) and see if windows picks it up. If you can see the drive in windows then there could be something wrong with your motherboard, there could be something wrong with the drives board or other, but seem as though YOU GAVE SUCH LITTLE INFORMATION, we can say it could be one of a hundred things.
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There is nothing else you need to do. It should have worked. \n\nTry to see if the drive is visible from the bios when you start the system. It might be that there is a conflict with some other device that is sharing the same IDE cable. Try changing it from master to slave or the opposite! (there is a little jumper on the back of the drive for doing this).
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New hard drives are so cheap now that I would not even waste my time debugging the problem. Go out and buy a new cheap drive and give it a shot.
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Did you change something or did this problem just start?  If you changed something, does the problem go away if you change it back?\n\n1) Is each drive connected to the power supply?\n2) Is each drive connected to an IDE cable?\n3) If two drives are sharing an IDE cable (hard drives and/or optical drives), does one have jumper set to "master" and the other have jumper set to "slave"?  Alternatively, if supported by your motherboard, are both drives jumpered to "Cable Select"?\n4) Are your IDE cables connected correctly?  The colored stripe should be connected to the number 1 pin on the motherboard and on each drive.\n5) While you are checking the cable, are there any broken or bent pins on either drive or the motherboard?\n6) Go into setup or observe your computer while it is booting.  Are both drives recognized by the BIOS?  If not, is your BIOS compatible with your hard drives?  For example, Pentium 1 motherboard BIOS-s do not support large hard drives.  \n7) If you've reached this point, you can rule out most hardware problems.  Can you run FDISK, Partion Magic, or similar program and see valid partitions on your drives?\n8) Are your partitions correctly formatted?\n9) Do you have a valid boot sector?\n10) Do you have a valid operating system installed?\n\nThat's about all I can think of to check now.  If your drives still don't work, let us know how far you get down this list.
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Your boot device have reading problem, You have try to change boot device from bios, it may be problem with your hd or cdrom have any cd in drive and boot device could be set to cd or same with floppy.\n\ntry to install your hard drive on a non-ata100 controller and remember to press f6 to install ata controllers from the floppy... then when you get to win2k, try making sure all the ata 100 drivers are installed and then shut down, switch to the ata/100 controller and boot up... should work fine. this topic has been brought up several times in the OS forum so you should stop by there http://www.sharkyforums.com/ubb/wink.gif
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If you just installed it, then you have to go thru BIOS to enable it. If you had it in there and it quit, was it because you were inside working on something???....you may have loosened the cable to either the harddrive or motherboard. Is the power supply to the harddrive plugged in??\nIs the D drive a slave drive and is the jumper pin on the back of it set to Slave? Could be lots of things, you have to think about all the things that could have happened to it.
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may be your sestem boot from CD Rom or Floppy first of all you change the boot sequence from BIOS setup. Select the Hard Drive in First Boot.
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Hi Niks here,\nIf u have many errors then plz specify any one error. ok thats no problem if u r facing the errors related to hardware then install the drivers properly for that component and if u r facing problem related to OS then just repair it by inserting the setup cd if u r facing the problem related to HDD then run the scandisk to resolve the problem, and if u still facing the problems then just mail me on nikskuku@gmail with u r specific problem ok thanks.
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I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems.\nSome hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in useful
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I would check the HD in another system and the IDE or SATA wire.\n\nYou can buy another control card that plugs into a PCI slot, it might even be faster.
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jumpers configured wrong, bad drive, or a bad cable. Recent install?  look in device manager for any conflicts
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yea check ALL the drives.\nif not, u r screwed, and might need to format ur hdd or get a new 1
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This could be hard drive errors. Try this first:\n\nPower on the computer, after the bios test press the "CTL" key multiple times to enter the diagnostic screen. Select exit to dos prompt. Run scandisk by typing scandisk at the prompt and press enter. Reboot after it completes