Hi,

Thank you for all your help. It turns out all I had to do was plug in my
drive when it was off and the computer was off, then try booting up.
Everything is working fine

"Adam Albright" wrote:
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> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 10:54:21 -0800, Joie
> <Joie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
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> >Should I try plugging the cable into the mobo?[/color]
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> It is one way to see if the cables are internal or external. I haven't
> seen a internal port yet that wasn't made to accept internal SATA
> cables. You typically need a external rated SATA cable (also called
> eSATA) to connect your external drive to some backplane which then
> converts to internal SATA or plugs into some card. Even if your
> internal SATA ports only run on SATA-1, at least you get to first
> base. I'm responding to your original question where you said you
> can't get the drive to work. It is either a cable problem or a driver
> problem or perhaps a BIOS issue or Windows simply don't see them. Ihad
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> >"Adam Albright" wrote:
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> >> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 20:06:05 -0800, Joie
> >> <Joie@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> >Hi,
> >> >
> >> >I am using the SATA cables that came with the drive and enclosure and cannot
> >> >get them to work. I don't know what kind of cables I need all I know is what
> >> >I have doesn't work, and my pci card says nothing about needing to buy
> >> >anything additional to attach my drive
> >>
> >> Lets backtrack a bit.
> >>
> >> 1. Are both ends of the cable you got the exact same?
> >> 2. Can you plug either end into your drive or controller card?
> >> 3. Do you have any SATA ports on our motherboard?
> >>
> >> When I was researching the topic before I bought several external SATA
> >> drives myself awhile back I read a couple articles where some vendor
> >> put the wrong cables in the box by mistake. So that could have
> >> happened.
> >>
> >> It sounds like they gave you INTERNAL SATA cables. The only real
> >> difference you can see is the connector often has a little metal band
> >> running across it while internals don't always. If you have both a
> >> internal and a external in your hand you can see the external variety
> >> has a slightly deeper opening in the connector shell which allows it
> >> to be pushed onto a SATA port just a fraction of a inch further. They
> >> aren't interchangable.
> >>
> >> The reason I asked if you have any SATA ports build into your MB is if
> >> you can get your cable pushed into those without forcing, then for
> >> sure you don't have the right cable.
> >>
> >>
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