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Bios does not detect samsung hard drive - what can I do?

  • Anonymous May 11, 2010

    What Pc do you have?Make model ? etc. As some Bios'sometimes wont detect drives over a certain size

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Reduce the 3 Gb/s SATA-II speed of the HD103UJ to 1.5 Gb/s (SATA-I). This can be done with ESTOOL available on the Samsung website.

I found the HD103UJ unreliable, read about my findings below.

unreliable disk Samsung spinpoint F1 HD103UJ

Good luck!

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All I can asume is that you are trying to install this on a slightly older computer. All is not lost though. you need to find out the name and model of your motherboard and go to thge web site to see if there is a bios update. if there is then get it and use it mthods vary but instructions will be on your motherboads web site.

Try that first as the second method is not my prefered one. Next you can try to set the drive up on a newer machine and whilst doing so split the partitions into 4 so that you would end up with what looks like 4 drive of just under 250Gb (You wont get 250Gb becuase of overheads)
Try it in your older computer and if all is good you are away to the races.

If that fails you are looking at using software to fool the bios. This has the advantage in that you can use the whole drive and dont need to creat partiions but quite often has a speed disadvantage becuase software has to do a lot of work.

The software is here but I hope you got it working way before you need this

http://www.samsung.com/ca/support/download/supportDown.do?group=&type=harddiskdrives&subtype=hdd35&model_nm=HD103UJ&disp_nm=HD103UJ&language=&cate_type=all&dType=D&mType=SW&vType=&prd_ia_cd=05040800&model_cd=&menu=download

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SOURCE: Samsung SP8022N / Hanaro 2

ok.

ok you said that you have hanaro 2 and you want to sasve something to that drive.

this is what you got to do set your hard drive as slave. ok

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  • Posted on Mar 05, 2009

SOURCE: my bios doesn't recognize my hard drive

Do the neccesary jumper cable settings. then manually detect it through your bios. If not detected, try to replace the ide cable. if still not detected, try to feel the hard drive if it spins, if not, the had drive is damage.

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