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Hi i need a driver for a sata hard drive
I know windows automatically detects a drive but it wont detect my drive and i need to force it to be in the drive listing so i can fix it
My bios also doesnt detect it becasue the the firmware needs to be updated which is the problem
Poppycock, SATA hard drives do not need Drivers.
The SATA Controller Chipset may need a Driver for an O/S.
As to BIOS if the SATA Drive is configured correctly and the SATA Controller is Enabled then the HDD will be recognised, even without the proposed firmware upgrade.
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My bios also doesnt detect it becasue the the firmware needs to be updated which is the problem
It doesn't matter what drivers you have; if the BIOS can't see the HDD, then WinXP can't see the HDD.
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how i got to the conclusion that i needed a firmware update was because the bios can "See" a Hard drive But it cant give it a proper name
And i need something that can fool the seagate program into thinking the hard drive is working and update the firmware
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Your logic eludes me. None of what you say makes any sense. Possibly if you explain further. When you say the BIOS can see a harddrive, exactly where do you see that information and what exactly does it say.
When you say you need a firmware update are you thinking the firmware on the harddrive? You can't flash that firmwarenor is there a need. Harddrives are pretty simple things. They either work with your hardware of they don't. There is no firmware to make it work. If you problem is that the drive is larger than 127GB and your MotherBoard BIOS can't work with it A BIOS update may possibly fix that issue. I highly doubt there would be such a BIOS update.
What Seagate program is it you want to fool?
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Wait, wait, wait.
Proper name? You mean a drive letter? The BIOS doesn't know nor care about drive letters. That's purely between you and Windows.
You can negotiate drive letter assignment from Computer Management's Logical Drives (or something to that effect; I'm on Win2K right now).
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OtheHill:
No, that's why I usually stay off of the OS boards.
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Ok seagate offers a utility that can update the firmware of a hard drive
What the BIOS sees the drive as is all garble because the firmware has gotten corrupted becasue the firmware tells the computer how to use a device and the firmware has gotten corrupted that means my pc doesnt know what to do with the drive
The firmware can be "reflashed" because all computer devices run off programmable firmware that ranges from cd-rom drives all the way to hard drives
and by not seeing the proper name i dont mean the drive letter i mean the drives model number and so on
this drive worked until i got a virus that attacks the firmware on pc's
i can give a link to the seagate utility if it is allowed here
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