Topic: Bought a new HDD
I bought a 500GB SATA HDD a while back, but for whatever reason when I try and hook it up, it fails to show up on my computer. It's a Western Digital if that matters. Any help on how to install a second internal HDD?
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be more specific. When it "fails to show up" do you mean it doesn't show up in My Computer? if that's the case, you just need to partition and format it. Internal drives generally don't come partitioned. On XP, right click My computer on the desktop, go to "Manage". Then go to disk management. It should be fairly intuitive from there.
If you mean it doesn't show up in Device Manager, then you have an actual problem. Check cables are connected right, drive is getting power (listen to it spin up at boot) and maybe try a different sata port on your motherboard. Some motherboards have two sets of sata ports, a raid set and a non-raid set. The raid set will need different drivers which you may not have installed, in which case connecting it to the other set will fix it.
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Don't forget to adjust the jumpers on the drive to make it a slave rather than a master. That's probably pretty obvious but I understand that it a pretty common thing for people to forget. Also I don't know if not doing that would necessarily cause your symptoms.
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Crast wrote:
be more specific. When it "fails to show up" do you mean it doesn't show up in My Computer? if that's the case, you just need to partition and format it. Internal drives generally don't come partitioned. On XP, right click My computer on the desktop, go to "Manage". Then go to disk management. It should be fairly intuitive from there.
If you mean it doesn't show up in Device Manager, then you have an actual problem. Check cables are connected right, drive is getting power (listen to it spin up at boot) and maybe try a different sata port on your motherboard. Some motherboards have two sets of sata ports, a raid set and a non-raid set. The raid set will need different drivers which you may not have installed, in which case connecting it to the other set will fix it.
My mistake, I meant to say "fails to show up under My Computer".
Killgore9998 wrote:
Don't forget to adjust the jumpers on the drive to make it a slave rather than a master. That's probably pretty obvious but I understand that it a pretty common thing for people to forget. Also I don't know if not doing that would necessarily cause your symptoms.
I don't know what any of that is or means.
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Not an issue on SATA drives killgore.
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Killgore9998 wrote:
Don't forget to adjust the jumpers on the drive to make it a slave rather than a master. That's probably pretty obvious but I understand that it a pretty common thing for people to forget. Also I don't know if not doing that would necessarily cause your symptoms.
He wouldn't need to do that with SATA, as there's no master-slave concept there
Kenak wrote:
My mistake, I meant to say "fails to show up under My Computer".
Did you try the steps from disk management I mentioned then?
Since I'm too lazy to type it out in detail, this has instructions with pretty pictures:
http://tech.yahoo.com/gd/upgrading-your … ive/166357
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darn those infernal details
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Hm, it's not showing up anywhere now. Is it just connect the HDD to the motherboard via a SATA cable? Or is there another cable that's used to power it? The last time I tried to hook this up was months ago, and I got to the point where my computer's BIOs reconized it; now I cannot even seem to do that.
Re: Bought a new HDD
you need to hook up a power cable also
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Yep, thanks. Hooked it up correctly, ran the Device Manager, and after about two hours of formatting it is up and running. Thanks for the help.