Can anyone help, I have just purchased and fitted a SAMSUNG 750GB 32MB CACHE SPINPOINT (HD753LJ) SATA 2 HDD to my desktop computer using an Elite 662/1066T-M2 (V1.0) motherboard and am having problems with the computer recognising the drive.
On a cold boot the drive would be recognised each time but if I have to do a warm boot for any reason such as a new program install requiring a reboot, then on reboot the drive is not found.
In the Bios, the hard drives settings are set at Auto and show as Detected on a cold boot but the drive is not found on a warm boot, to get the drive to be recognised again I must turn the computer completely off and then do a cold boot. The drive has been partitioned into four, three Primary and one Logical.

Can anyone also tell me if It is possible to run this Sata hard drive with my Pata hard drives I have already installed in my desktop case.

My computer is fitted with: Elitegroup 662/1066T-M2 Motherboard fitted with two Serial ATA 1.0 specification ports, I have 1Gb of memory, the Processor is a Intel Pentium D 3.2GHz.

Sure you can mix SATA and IDE/ATA (PATA).

Did you set the jumper from SATA II to SATA I? If not you need to.

Thanks very much Jephree for the information on mixing Sata with Pata, at leased that clears up one problem.

You mention about setting the jumpers from Sata II to Sata I, but I have no idea where these jumpers would be, unless you mean the jumpers on the back of the hard drive In which there are only four pins. My motherboard as far as I can see has only the jumpers for re-setting the CMOS.

This new Sata drive is backward compatible with Sata 1.5 and is supposed to according to the instructions do this automatically although they did mention that if the drive did not revert to 1.5 you can place a jumper into the left hand set of the four pins on the drive which I have already tried but the drive still did not get recognised on a warm boot.

Yes it is the jumper on the rear of the drive.

Most SATA I motherboards won't even "see" a SATA II drive until you reset the jumper to SATA I.

There might be other restrictions with that motherboard as it predates your hard drive rather dramatically.

If the only issue is between a Windows "Restart" and a "Shutdown" I would just live with the need to "Shutdown" then restart.

You could try your latest BIOS update or consider upgrading the motherboard.

I just bought the same drive (HD753LJ) and am also having the problem +Messiah+ is having.

I have tried connecting the drive to other SATA ports but it has the same problem.

My motherboard is a GIGABYTE GA-965GM-S2 and has SATA 3Gb/s. My primary hard drive is a Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS and has never had this problem.

I bought the Samsung drive from Newegg and I found at least 1 other customer that had the same problem.

Is this a problem with the hard drive or the motherboard? Any suggestions for a fix or should I return the drive?

Specs are as follows:
Motherboard: GIGABYTE GA-965GM-S2 LGA 775
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4300 Allendale 1.8GHz
Memory: Patriot Signature 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 667 (PC2 5300) Dual Channel
Primary Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD3200KS
Secondary Hard Drive: SAMSUNG 750GB 32MB CACHE SPINPOINT (HD753LJ)
DVD: LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-H10N
Power Supply: SeaSonic S12-430 ATX12V 430W
Case: Microfly