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[Zutronius]

I'm trying to install a 250 gig sata hard drive into my Emachines t3104 desktop. The hard drives are not showing in the bios. I checked on the motherboard and it has sata 1 but neither of my sata drives mention anything about whether they are sata 1 or sata two. I'm about to give up on getting these drives to work but was wondering if anyone could give me some more advice.

[chevro1et]

You may need to install a sata driver for your motherboard before the drives will be recognized.

[Temporary]

Did you enable the sata controller in the bios. If you had an IDE drive and this is an older machine they emulated IDE interface via Sata controller and to do that the had to disable native SATA support.

[OneWayTraffic]

Try resetting the bios to optimized defaults. If you can't get it to work along with the advice given above, then make sure that the drives and cables work when you put them in another machine.

[sobriquet]

Try running it in compatibility mode.

Should be an option in your BIOS for that.

That should allow you to see them and then work out what is wrong from there.

[jackdaniels]

Might be as simple as re-sitting the pins to Sata 1 mode.
This will be on the same side as power and sata connections.
It is a very small plastic square clip usually black.
The correct sequence should be on the label.

[jonbowman88]

you could also have a bad drive