I can't access my SATA Hard drive. Can anyone Help?
929541
Check your bios settings. I have an Abit mobo and it requires to enable "onboard sata". Don`t know why it should have been altered but check it anyway. Also it might be a good idea to use the sata drive as a main drive in the future, it is supposed to be a tad faster. Also, listen to the drive when you boot the thing. It should make a small whizz when the power cord is attached. If not, it doesn`t get any juice indicating to a dead power cord or the drive itself is dead. Data can be rescued no matter what but can get expensive.
744897
This sounds like a plug got lose.  Unplug the power cord (and main battery if this is a laptop) then remove the plugs in the drive, and reinsert them.   Then apply power and see if the drive is restored.  \n\nThis is just a shot in the dark, but I have seen this situation on a rare basis. \n\nGood luck
166120
sorry man....but only an Ablolute Disk Sector reader program can read your disk now.....and it will need to be run from a DIFFERENT hard drive....\n\nContact a 'data recovery' professional, but you may find the cost to not be worth it.  several hundreds of dollars US.
643323
either your harddrive is crashed, of it is bad. It need major work, if you were here where I lived you could bring it to me, but you should take it to a shop where they can find out the problem
280561
Try this -\n\nOpen control panel, then system, then hardware, then device manager, then disk drives, double click on your bad drive and click troubleshoot.\n\nGood Luck
560778
check your Linux's distro, if compatible to using SATA hard drive, then you can install like usual you install windows, also set your motherboard to detect the SATA hard drive. Mostly, Linux's Distro at this time using GUI instalation, so it's not hard to install to hard drive
171076
Here is the solution:\n\n1.Open My Computer.\n2.Right-click on the HDD and select properties.
813138
Did you just delete or reformat?  If you have not reformatted the old slave drive, do so immediately.  I think that should do it.
1011981
Most external hard drives are just an internal ide drive with its own power supply. You should be able to remove the drive, set it as slave and install it in your PC. This is pretty simple. If the drive is still ok, you can then recover the data.
10856
I don't think if your using a SATA harddrive, it has to be in RAID.  Below is a link for your motherboard.  You can download the manual.
101162
It sounds like either your harddrive crashed or has been disconnected.  Check to make sure the harddrive is connected properly.  Beyond that you'll have to replace the harddrive and re-install your operating system.
360355
I don't think you can access the boot sector of a hard drive, because any modifications to the boot sector could cause your computer to crash.
663315
have you reinstalled the driver for this drive? if you go into my computer is your drive there? if not it sounds like you need to go into the bios and change the drive settings
749504
I can give you a link that deals with hard drive problems. Some RAM/hard drive problems can be easily fixed yourself by using easily available tools. I found the info at http://fixit.in  useful. Try this site, you can get what is required.
1048042
there is no way to do it if format hard drive doesn't work
707529
I think you'll find that the hard-drive you've installed is a SATA drive ... and unless you have the sata drivers (usually installed from a floppy disc) you're basically ... screwed ... I installed Vista on a SATA drive but had to load the Silicon Image SATA drivers from a USB pendrive which Vista recognised as it was installing (The most useful feature I've found with it so far)\nIf it is a SATA drive you have to find a way of loading the drivers before you load windows
458342
download stella data recovery software.it will recover your harddisk data.