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No detection of Western Digital (my passport) portable hard drive

For weeks i have been making reconfiguration with my bios just to be able for my usb to detect my protable hard drive. just recently i have found out the main problem, since i tried another pc, i only reconfigure the usb settings inorder for the mother board to give enough power that able the gadget to be detect.

my question is.... "How or where do i find this setting where i can give mor power to my usb inorder for my Portable hard drive be detected."

hope you can help me with my problem.

rgds.

Ronan Belleza

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A 2006 relic mobo,
the mobo has FIXED hard, chip called Vbus, and current is limited that chip, max. and is shared to say 4 USB ports. so is shared
to get more current
use external hdd its power pack, 2.5amps up 3.5" no Passport told
we can not guess models of external drives, ever and matters huge
some old mobo are 100mA limited and most external drives fail.
lack of current. and can even wreck the drive is it goes made self booting and spin failling endless (super bad that) ok now the cure.
easy
buy a USB3 powered HUB that has a 1amp or more power pack
bingo works.
no OS told ,xp , w7 , vista, what, as settings are not the same
most usb ports do no have manual power settings ever.
so
use hdd that has a power pack, 3.5inchj all do
buy a usb powered hub

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jun 30, 2007

SOURCE: Windows did not detect SATA during installation

You need the manual to your motherboard to set it up in the BIOS. http://www.biostar-usa.com/docsmain.asp In the drop down menu select M7NCD ULTRA. I hope this helps. Let me know.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jul 03, 2007

SOURCE: SATA problem during windows install

You would need to make a floppy disk with the sata drivers on them for windows to use during the installation so it can recognise the drive... assuming you don't have memory problems that is...

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Ginko

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  • Posted on Apr 03, 2008

SOURCE: Biostar P4M900-M7 SE BIOS ROM Checksum Error

The bios upgrade procedure stopped at half , leaving the bios corrupted. The computer now cannot do a regular boot procedure, this is the reason why it cannot recognise some device. If you are still able to boot from floppy, you can restart bios upgrade procedure from floppy. Just download floppy version upgrade and re do setup. Even if you do not find latest bios version, just download a floppy upgrade that is working, so that you can restart your machine regularly , and then do the update to latest version.
If you are not able to complete the bios setup, the only way to fix your motherboard will be flashing the CMOS chipset with a chip programmer device that will reinstall bios straight into cmos chipset.
You can have this done at the service point, in this case consider also replacing your motherboard.

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Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jun 10, 2009

SOURCE: sata hdd not detected

Yes, go into the bios and make sure that SATA is turned on. Sometimes with motherboards that have two ide controllers the SATA is turned off by default. Also another thing to check is whether the motherboard is SATA I or SATA II. If it is SATA I then change the jumper on the hard drive to peg back to SATA I. Your new hard drive is SATA II and the motherboard may not support it.

Anonymous

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  • Posted on Jul 08, 2009

SOURCE: Intermittent failure to boot up does not detect

hi.. have some idea on that... when you try to format your computer.. pls make the SATA as "first boot" or "second boot" then try to boot again your computer.. thank you very much...

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