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13-Apr-2009, 04:49 PM #1
Vista not recognizing Western Digital Hard Drive
I recently got a Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200AJS 320gb hard drive as a second hard drive just for media storage. Ever since I received it, Vista has had trouble with it. The drivers have never properly installed right, yet once within the first week of having it I was able to view it through the Admin. Tools and format it. I put on a good 30 gigs of video, but the next time I used my computer Vista was back to viewing it as an 'Unknown ATA Device' BIOS recognizes it fine (I use an Intel 945G mobo), and I was able to install Ubuntu on it and it's recognized fine there, yet Vista just can't do anything with it. Any advice?
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14-Apr-2009, 03:16 PM #2
Also, I've been having a BIOS Press F1 to continue boot error because of this hard drive lately. I think it might just be a master/slave conflict, because I was using jumpers before and never had this problem. I don't really think it's relevant, but I'm by no means a hardware expert and I'm looking for any advice here.
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