Motherboard GA P31 S3G HDD problem

[laaskee]

I bought used PC a few days ago and I tried to replace the old HDD with my own HDD.
So PC that I bought configuration:
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P31-S3G
CPU: Intel Core2Quad Q6600
RAM: Kingston 4GB DDR2
GPU: PCI-E GA-NX72G512P2
OLD HDD: Hitachi 80GB SATA (HDS728080PLA380)
Power Supply: ACBEL HBA005-ZA1GT 300

So I wanted to replace the old HDD with my HITACHI 500GB(HDS721050CLA662) because the old one have bad sectors.

So the problem is when I connect my HDD BIOS won’t recognize it. And HDD is working on another PC.

I tried switching cables and nothing. Flashed BIOS and nothing.

Sometimes when I insert USB with windows I enter the installation and installation starts and then after few percents, it shut down.

I checked online and HDD is compatible with the motherboard.

Any thoughts, I don’t know what to do.

[Evan_Omo]

Hi,

Do you have another hard drive you can use to plug into the system to see if it gets recognized?

Does the Hitachi drive work in another system?

[laaskee]

No, I don’t have another one.
Just that 2 and the first one works but the second doesn’t.

When I use other PC both hard drives work.

[Evan_Omo]

Try using a different SATA port on the motherboard and see if that allows the hard drive to be recognized on the used computer.

[laaskee]

Tried that but still nothing, on 3 SATA port it won’t find the HDD and on 4th if i press del for entering the bios it won’t even open bios it froze.

[Evan_Omo]

The hard drive might be faulty if its not being recognized at all. Try using a SATA to USB adapter and if still nothing then that hard drive is probably dead.

[laaskee]

I don’t know about that hard works perfectly on other PC, ill try to connect with USB.

[phillpower2]

Any update for us?

[Evan_Omo]

Thread closed due to lack of any feedback from the OP.