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Title: Problems With A Hard Drive Swap
Post by: 1hotjob on January 07, 2010, 12:42:00 PM

Have you read the Readme.txt that comes with the program? There is a section that covers your drive not being found.

Title: Problems With A Hard Drive Swap
Post by: ATOByrd on January 07, 2010, 03:48:00 PM

Sorry for the double post, but here are some more pictures to help figure out what my problem is:

The Hard Drive


Setting up my thumb drive using iPrep


Copying hddhackr to my thumb drive (here, you can see how I have two hddhackr's)


Copying the 250 gig hddss.bin to my thumb drive


My completed thumb drive, ready for booting


It being recognized by my SATA card


Running hddhackr with the long command line


Just running the hddhackr command (no arguments)

Hey!  It found my 120 gig IDE drive!

Title: Problems With A Hard Drive Swap
Post by: 1hotjob on January 07, 2010, 04:05:00 PM

I'm thinking it needs to be a BEVS drive. Yours is a BEKT. That may be the problem.

Title: Problems With A Hard Drive Swap
Post by: 1hotjob on January 07, 2010, 05:45:00 PM

I haven't read all of the Readme since I am not trying it. Mia Culpa. All I have read about are the BEVS drives. I don't know why it would be showing no IDE drives when you are connecting a SATA.

It has been a long time since I built a 120gig drive, so I am not up on all the procedures and drives available. (Obviously)

Title: Problems With A Hard Drive Swap
Post by: ATOByrd on January 07, 2010, 09:14:00 PM

QUOTE(1hotjob @ Jan 7 2010, 07:45 PM)

I haven't read all of the Readme since I am not trying it. Mia Culpa. All I have read about are the BEVS drives. I don't know why it would be showing no IDE drives when you are connecting a SATA.

It has been a long time since I built a 120gig drive, so I am not up on all the procedures and drives available. (Obviously)

Its cool bro.  The frist drive I had was a BEVS drive, and I had the same exact problem.

Title: Problems With A Hard Drive Swap
Post by: harleywastaken on January 07, 2010, 09:56:00 PM

maybe it doesn't like your sata chipset? borrow a laptop, swap in the hdd, use the stick.

Title: Problems With A Hard Drive Swap
Post by: KILLorBE on January 08, 2010, 03:05:00 AM

You may want to try a different version of hddhacker, try different SATA ports and/or move the SATA card to a different PCI slot.

Title: Problems With A Hard Drive Swap
Post by: 1hotjob on January 08, 2010, 08:53:00 AM

My PC won't boot from USB so I use floppy drives. I think I did two with success.

I agree, try moving things around. Try disabling HD in BIOS.

Title: Problems With A Hard Drive Swap
Post by: ATOByrd on January 20, 2010, 07:28:00 PM

When you say "disabling HD in BIOS" what do you mean?