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I'm adding a new hard drive (A seagate ST31000340NS; I had links in here but I don't have enough reputation to post them. Interestingly, the bios recognizes it as a ST31000340AS, but it was bought as the other number...) to a friend's hp pavilion d4650e (mobo specs; google the model if you want the rest of the info, can't do more than one link.). Have had quite a time with it. Finally figured out that the hard drive needed a jumper set to limit the speed to 1.5gbps so the mobo would recognize it, and the bios DOES recognize it now. But not windows (using windows 7), using add new hardware or diskmgmt.msc. According to my friend, who was at the computer when it first booted after adding the jumper, a new hardware found dealio popped up saying something about raid, but I can't provide more info then that since I didn't see it.
Ubuntu livecd recognized the drive before we changed the jumper. Haven't checked since then. XP didn't recognize it, that's the OS we started with. Upgraded to 7 hoping it might fix the problem.
The only other info I can think of that might be immediately relevant is that the drive is plugged into the fifth sata channel, and the first channel is empty. Is this a problem? I assume not, because the two other drives (in a raid 0) and the cd and dvd drives are also on channels past the first one, and are recognized.
Ask questions and I'll update with info!
If there's no HDD mode options in the BIOS, how is the existing RAID 0 controlled? Is that RAID made of PATA drives? Also you mention it's plugged into the "fifth sata channel" yet the mobo specs say there's only 4 sata ports? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2010-02-04T03:53:07.513
Also, you say Add New Hardware doesn't find it, and that it doesn't show up in Disk Mgr, but does is it showing up in the Device Manager? – Ƭᴇcʜιᴇ007 – 2010-02-04T04:17:44.303
There's a raid controller built-in. The raid is SATA drives, and I don't know where the settings are for them exactly, because I haven't been messing with them. They are listed in the BIOS but I've not gone into the detail view for either of them.
It doesn't show in device manager.
And the specs are right, there are only four sata ports on the mobo, but the bios reports six channels. =P
Also, Device Manager does not recognize the drive. – None – 2010-02-05T11:26:17.737