I am trying to install Windows 7 Ultimate x64 in a clean SATA II HDD 160 GB on ASUS H87 Pro but the BIOS is not detecting the Hard drive. Please help me the motherboard is UEFI Type Thanks
When you enter set up is the HDD shown there? If not, can you add it? There might be a loose data connection, loose power connection, one or more bad cables, a bad drive even. Try a different SATA port and different data cable and power lead. If the drive is new, have you tried it on another system? You don't have to permanently mount it, just hook up data and power and see if it works. You can also try it in a USB enclosure to verify it's working.
Make sure the SATA II HDD does not have the SATA I compatibility jumper (or software setting) set. SATA controllers are backwards-compatible for one generation only, using a (real or emulated) SATA I HDD on a SATA III controller, for example, does not work.
If it doesn't detect it after a restart, under what conditions is it detected? Does it just suddenly appear in Disk Management after a period of time without reboot? Maybe you need to try wiping and formatting the HDD using a third party program. I like GPartEd but there are many other good ones. Where did you get your OS installation media? Maybe you need to get a fresh copy via a link in this forum and start over.
So you're conclusion is the old HDD is bad? Or was the old 3 Gb/s SATA HDD incompatible with the new Asus H87 6Gb/s SATA ports? Just curious for future reference.
Every motherboard with SATA 3 6.0GB/s ports I have encountered is backwards compatible with all SATA ll 3.0GB/s HDD's and SSD's...manufacturers do not force new motherboard buyers to stop using and/or have to replace all their current SATA ll hard drives with all SATA lll hardware in order to be compatible with their board... Your old drive has another issue, not an incompatibility problem...
It is known that there are rare issues (special chipset and special devices) with compatibility concerning SATA. If your BIOS setup does not recognize the HDD and the HDD itself is fine at the old mobo then it is a compatibility issue. Not sure if further BIOS updates will fix that issue. The SATA standards themselves are known to be backwards compatible though. Latest is SATA Express 8 / 16 (revision 3.2).
Gents, Just in case I missed something unique here with the ASUS H87 Pro motherboard, I downloaded the manual. Although it's not the best Asus manual I've ever read, there is nothing of note in regards to using SATA II instead of a SATA III hard drive. As mentioned earlier, SATA connections are backwards compatible. You should be able to use either, and it can be a conventional HDD, or SSD type. If wired correctly (both power and SATA cable) the motherboard should see it in Bios. So either the cabling connections are at fault or the Drive is Dead. At least that's my humble opinion.
I agree completely; I gathered the same from my manual. But since it's very likely not the latest version, I wanted confirmation. You and others provided that I believe. Thanks.