Segate 1.5TB Not Recognized

[Bonanza]

I just purchased a Segate 1.5TB sata drive (ST31500341AS) from Newegg for a great price of $129.00 w/free shipping. The problem is that Vista64 Home Premium does not show the drive in the Disk Management utility. I have several 1TB drives from Seagate (ST31000340AS) which work fine. I’ve connected the new drive to a Sata cable which worked OK with a 300G drive so the port is enabled in the BIOS. I don’t think I see the new drive as the PC is booting because the screen with that information goes by so quickly – but I’m 99% sure it is not listed. Folks on the Newegg site mentioned issues with the firmware but mine is even newer than the revision that reportedly fixed previous issue.

Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6
Intel Core2 Quad Q9450
4GB DDR2-1066

Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda
Model: ST31500341AS
P/N: 9JU138-301
FW: CC1G
Date Code: 09212

Have you entered BIOS setup to see if the drive is listed there?

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"Bonanza" <Bonanza.3m0r8c@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message
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>
> I just purchased a Segate 1.5TB sata drive (ST31500341AS) from Newegg
> for a great price of $129.00 w/free shipping. The problem is that
> Vista64 Home Premium does not show the drive in the Disk Management
> utility. I have several 1TB drives from Seagate (ST31000340AS) which
> work fine. I've connected the new drive to a Sata cable which worked OK
> with a 300G drive so the port is enabled in the BIOS. I don't think I
> see the new drive as the PC is booting because the screen with that
> information goes by so quickly - but I'm 99% sure it is not listed.
> Folks on the Newegg site mentioned issues with the firmware but mine is
> even newer than the revision that reportedly fixed previous issue.
>
> Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6
> Intel Core2 Quad Q9450
> 4GB DDR2-1066
>
> Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda
> Model: ST31500341AS
> P/N: 9JU138-301
> FW: CC1G
> Date Code: 09212
>
>
> --
> Bonanza
> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>

What does the Disk Management tool say? The drive likely needs to be
partitioned and formatted before Windows will see it.

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"Bonanza" <Bonanza.3m0r8c@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com> wrote in message
news:Bonanza.3m0r8c@no-mx.forums.vistaheads.com...
>
> I just purchased a Segate 1.5TB sata drive (ST31500341AS) from Newegg
> for a great price of $129.00 w/free shipping. The problem is that
> Vista64 Home Premium does not show the drive in the Disk Management
> utility. I have several 1TB drives from Seagate (ST31000340AS) which
> work fine. I’ve connected the new drive to a Sata cable which worked OK
> with a 300G drive so the port is enabled in the BIOS. I don’t think I
> see the new drive as the PC is booting because the screen with that
> information goes by so quickly – but I’m 99% sure it is not listed.
> Folks on the Newegg site mentioned issues with the firmware but mine is
> even newer than the revision that reportedly fixed previous issue.
>
> Gigabyte GA-EP45-DQ6
> Intel Core2 Quad Q9450
> 4GB DDR2-1066
>
> Seagate 1.5TB Barracuda
> Model: ST31500341AS
> P/N: 9JU138-301
> FW: CC1G
> Date Code: 09212
>
>
> --
> Bonanza
> Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com
>

[Bonanza]

The disk management tool was not seeing the drive, nor was the BIOS. Last night I moved the drive to the Sata ports connected to the Intel ICH10R and it works. The other sata controller Sil5723 (which is what I had it connected to before, and had been able to recognize a 300G drive) apparently does not support this new drive. So my problem is fixed, although I'm not totally satisfied with the solution since it limits my connectivity and I have no for free sata ports on the ICH10R controller for future expansion.