Topic: Problems With A Hard Drive Swap (Read 102 times)

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.

ATOByrd · « **Reply #1 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
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Setting up my thumb drive using iPrep
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Copying hddhackr to my thumb drive (here, you can see how I have two hddhackr's)
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Copying the 250 gig hddss.bin to my thumb drive
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My completed thumb drive, ready for booting
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It being recognized by my SATA card
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Running hddhackr with the long command line
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Just running the hddhackr command (no arguments)
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Hey! It found my 120 gig IDE drive!

1hotjob · « **Reply #2 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.

1hotjob · « **Reply #3 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)

ATOByrd · « **Reply #4 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.

harleywastaken · « **Reply #5 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.

KILLorBE · « **Reply #6 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.

1hotjob · « **Reply #7 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.

ATOByrd · « **Reply #8 on:** January 20, 2010, 07:28:00 PM »

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

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