Clevo D900K Won't Recognize New HDD

Hey Everyone,

I'm trying to install a new HDD in my 2+ year old Sager NP9750. The original drive was a Seagate 7200.1 80GB SATA. I'm installing a Seagate 7200.2 160GB SATA with little luck.

First I tried cloning the drive with Seagate's DiscWizard software. Didn't work. Next tried cloning the drive with HDClone. Didn't work. Since I don't feel like buying Ghost, I decided to just load from scratch (which is always the better option anyway).

So I slapped in the new drive in the old one's slot, booted from the Vista DVD and... Vista doesn't recognize any drive to install to.

Went into my Bios and it doesn't seem to recognize any drive either. Seagate's website offers no help and I don't see any bios updates on Sager's website.

Any ideas?

 

That sounds to me like the new drive is just a bum drive - at the very least there is no reason in principle why both the BIOS and _Vista should not recognize that there's a disk there at all. Quick question, I'm assuming that the old drive is what is known as SATA-I; i.e., up to 150Mbps, so, my question, is the new drive also SATA-I, or is it what is called SATA-II; i.e., up to 300Mbps?

 

if you are using a new SATA-II (300MB/s) in the D900K, you need to do a jumper setting to make it run with SATA-I (150MB/s) systems.

I had to do it with my new Seagate drives.

 

Yeah, I will have to set it up to run as a SATA I drive. However, I had it set up as an external USB drive to do the clone process and Vista recognized it fine then. Now after the cloning failed, I put it back in the external case and Vista doesnt recognize it.

So I think something happened in the cloning process that screwed the drive up, but I'm not sure how. I'm even less sure of how to fix it, if it's even possible. Man I hate technology sometimes, lol.

 

make sure you do not have any program in the boot sector... like lame-ass GoBack.

because clones/ghosts gets screwed up if you do not uninstall those type of programs before the clone.

 

Well, I pulled out the drive and realized it didn't ship with a jumper (some do some don't), so I scrounged around and found one, slapped it on and the system bios now recognizes it. I'm formatting and installing Windows now.

Still doesn't explain why the drive wasn't recognized by Windows as an external USB drive though... (Upon plugging it in, Windows made the detection sound, but failed to recognize any USB drive present).

Oh well, hopefully all works out. Thanks Gophn for the reminder about the jumper setting ;-)