WD2000JD SATA not working

[aharpro26]

I bought a WD2000JD-00HBB0 hard drive for a friend's computer. In the manual for the GA-8IG1000 Pro-G it says it has to be on SATA0 for windows XP to be compatible with it. If I do this, it takes forever in that "Detecting IDE devices". And, if you wait forever, it won't even show the hard drive as detected. Windows XP installation says there is no hard drive installed. I have been using the molex power connector. I set the SATA drive to primary master just for kicks. It took forever to boot, but it showed up with the drive name. The windows installation had a critical error when i did this. I am so frusterated with this hard drive because my friend was depending on me to get this thing working. :mad:

[urbancontra]

Usually sata drives don't require the jumper to be put on, so if you're not sure if you need this or not, I would recommend you leave it off.

Also, if this is the only drive in the system and it sounds like it is, is this a sata drive or an ide drive? If it's an ide drive why would the bios have to be set to sata 0? and if it is sata then i would disable any unnecessary ide ports not in use. Also, try a different configuration for the sata like auto and see if that helps?

As far as the error it could be due to the drive itself being faulty, or an installation problem such as a corrupted file.

[stan03]

is the gigabyte board trying to make the drive appear to be IDE? i know that when i didn't have used channels on my IDE slots, and plugged in an SATA drive, the board would try to remap it to an IDE channel. I had to force it to stay as sata somehow (its in the bios somewhere try hitting ctrl f1 while in the bios.)

[aharpro26]

It is SATA. i forgot to state that even though the model number is SATA. I know the BIOS automatically sets SATA drives to IDE but i unmapped it so it was just SATA 0. This does absolutely nothing. It still won't recognize in the windows XP setup.

[Restorer]

I had a similar problem setting up a friend's IDE drive. I couldn't figure out what caused it, so he exchanged the drive, and the new one worked perfectly. So, you might have a defective drive.

[adelphia83]

It still won't recognize in the windows XP setup.

Are you loading the SATA controller device drivers in the initial text-based portion of XP setup ???

[aharpro26]

Restorer, I bought 2 drives, and they both do the same thing. adelphia83, where do i find them for a Asus P4P800-VM and a Giga-Byte GA-8IG1000 Pro-G. I looked everywhere for drivers of some sort. I must be missing something. Will the drivers fix my extremely long boot times? thanks

[adelphia83]

I'm not familar with that motherboard specifically.

Typically most w/ SATA come with a floppy disk, in which you hit F6 (load additional storage drivers) during the first part of the Windows text-based setup.

Your long boot times are probably due to IDE drives being misconfigured. Make sure if you have two drives on the same channel, that they are both jumpered to master and slave respectively.

Also be sure to confgure the SATA drive in the SATA BIOS.

[aharpro26]

It still takes forever to boot when the hard drive is the only drive connected. I have 2 motherboards with SATA and neither come with a floppy disk. What is this SATA BIOS? Are these just options in the BIOS for SATA?

[adelphia83]

It still takes forever to boot when the hard drive is the only drive connected. I have 2 motherboards with SATA and neither come with a floppy disk. What is this SATA BIOS? Are these just options in the BIOS for SATA?

Is that motherboard using the ICH5R SATA controller?

The SATA BIOS is loaded during POST, it'll say something like "Press F10 to configure SATA devices".

You'll want to get those floppy disks. Hopefully someone familar with that SATA chipset / motherboard(s) can chime in, as I'm not directly familiar with either one, and exactly how to access the SATA BIOS.