Getting system to recognize Hitachi CinemaStar P7K500

The OS, Win 7 Pro, is located on another IDE drive. Attaching the Hitachi CinemaStar to the MoBo gaves the MoBo fitsand initially would not boot to the OS. I tried upgrading and finally completed a fresh install of Win 7 after many times to get the system to boot into Win7. Of course the OS is very unstable. It took five attempts to install the OS before it would boot. These drives were intended to be installed in DVRs. How do I get the system to recognize the drive in order to format it and make it a part of the computer? I have a hard drive feature tool but it is not one for the CinemaStar. The MoBo is an Asus M4A79XTD VIO. Since I disconnected the Hitachi drive, I still encounter many crashes of programs and frequent blue screens at sign in. Before I wipe the IDE drive out and do a fresh install, I want to get the Hitachi CinemaStar Sata drive functioning. I retired several years ago from the computer industry and actually have a supply of fifteen of these drives. I need to learn how to get them to function with the MoBO. I also have several WD5000AAJS WD Caviar SE drives which are also SATA drives made for DVRs. I get the same results from these drives also. Any help would be appreciated!

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If you have OC that motherboard, roll it back. The drives that you are using are dinosaurs compared to the motherboard. Legacy issues exist.

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Posted on Jan 23, 2008

SOURCE: Dell Dimension 5000 - Installing extra Hitachi 500GB SATA Hard Drive

hi i bought a 500gb samsung harddrive thinking to install it into my dimension 5000 but i was missing a data cable. i went to dell to ask about where i could find one and they told me that my dimension 5000 wouldnt support a 500gb harddrive. the max apparently is 400gb... if you have managed to get it to work however. please report back.

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Posted on May 04, 2008

SOURCE: Dell Dimension 5000

please reset the bios..on dell logo..press f2..press num lock, caps lock ,scroll lock so that all three are on. press alt e
press alt f
select the option that says
save changes and exit

your hdd should get detected.
please post back if it does not work so that i can check out fir further options

Anonymous

674 Answers
Posted on Jun 08, 2009

SOURCE: Hitachi Desk star 500GB SATA drive

HOW MANY PARTITION DID YOU MAKE? HOW MANY GB EACH OF ONE.?

MAYBE YOU DID NOT FORMAT THE OTHERS.JUST REVIEW YOUR PARTITION GOT TO PARTIONING ARE THEN REVIEW IT....... YOU FIND THERE THE PROBLEM,, THAT IS HAPPER TO ME BEFORE...BEST OF MY EXPERIENCE....

Anonymous

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Posted on Dec 17, 2009

SOURCE: my hitachi hts541680j9sa00 80gb hard drive is trying to boot up windows Vista but I get a blue screen 0x0000007b,0x81e03ba0,0xc0000034. I have tried vista disk system repair and it shows not OS and a

i hav hitachi hdd it has pass word and i have forget them is there any universal pass word i need them

Anonymous

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Posted on Jul 28, 2011

SOURCE: Trying to install Hitachi Deskstar

Can you look in the bios and see if your motherboard is configured to use your SATA drives in AHCI mode or to emulate IDE mode?

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