I bought a 1tb WD Blue 6Gb/s SATA drive to install in my 3Gb/s SATA computer. It should be backwards compatible, right?
Mobo is Gigabyte p35-ds3l, latest BIOS
I plug the drive in on my usual settings and it doesn't boot into Windows
-I've checked boot sequence in BIOS, the HDD with the boot rom on it has priority in channel 0
The new HDD does not appear in the BIOS as anything. Where it should say CH.2 [serial number] it is just completely blank.
I fiddled around with the IDE settings and AHCI and no matter what I can't get the drive to show up.
I know WD has some sort of utility that I can download but I assume the drive has to be attached to the mobo in order for any utility to work and as it is, the computer will NOT boot to Windows if the new drive is attached.
Did I get a bad drive? I've requested an RMA from Newegg but I want to check here first in case there's anything I missed.
Mobo is Gigabyte p35-ds3l, latest BIOS
I plug the drive in on my usual settings and it doesn't boot into Windows
-I've checked boot sequence in BIOS, the HDD with the boot rom on it has priority in channel 0
The new HDD does not appear in the BIOS as anything. Where it should say CH.2 [serial number] it is just completely blank.
I fiddled around with the IDE settings and AHCI and no matter what I can't get the drive to show up.
I know WD has some sort of utility that I can download but I assume the drive has to be attached to the mobo in order for any utility to work and as it is, the computer will NOT boot to Windows if the new drive is attached.
Did I get a bad drive? I've requested an RMA from Newegg but I want to check here first in case there's anything I missed.