BIOS won't read Sata drive

[ZeroShade]

My Bios won't read one of my sata drive... all I want to do is reformat the drive anyways. When I look for it in the bios i see the channel section taken but it doesn't say disabled... it just says nothing... so I guess that tells me it knows there is some type of device there... but can't read it. Any suggestions?

 

[Lexluethar]

Have you tried a different cable? Have you tried to use a different channel on the MB?

 

[ZeroShade]

I've tried two different pc's.

 

[KSoD]

Hello,

Is this a brand new drive? It sounds like the drive is dead if 2 different PC's can not see the drive to format it.

Have you tried GParted LiveCD? That might be able to see it and format it for you.

Cheers,
Mak

 

[ZeroShade]

System won't even get past the first screen with the motherboard logo. Its like it just stops... one computer i can get into the bios... but it won't run gparted... and the other computer i can run gparted... but it gets stuck at the first screen. I'm thinking the drive is toast... as it probably caused all my other problems. I'll see what I can do with it though... might be a way to recover it.