Today i got a brand new 500gb sata hard drive made by western digital. it is the wd caviar blue.
i am currently running windows 7 off of an ide hard drive paired up with my dvd rom drive, since my computer has only one ide socket. i got a new hard drive, and i plugged it in and started the computer. it got recognized in the bios, and windows installed the drivers for it, but why wont it shopw up in my computer? in the bios i can set it to "ide" "raid" or something else. i have plugged it into all of the sata sockets and have tried two sata cables but no luck.
my specs are:
-intel d945gtp desktop motherboard
-256mb ati radeon x700 se pcie graphics card
-2gigs of ram in 4 slots
-1 20gig maxtor ide hdd
-1 dvd/rw ide drive
-intel pentium d processor
-350w power supply
why wont it show up in my computer? plese help me!
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That something else
may be native mode or compatibility mode, set it as such in the BIOS and see what happens.
Also can you see anything in the disk manager?
Also can you see anything in the disk manager?
20th Nov 2010
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Probably needs to be partitioned and formatted.
seanferd
20th Nov 2010
i didn't know how to do inside of windows, so i just used my winxp cd and cancelled the setup after it partitioned the drive. it has shown up in my computer and i can use it now.
thanks!
thanks!
zack247
21st Nov 2010
to access the disk manager, right click on my computer, select manage click disk management, this will show all of your drives and their status.
I mentioned it in my first post, should have offered more info.
Good to see you got it going.
I mentioned it in my first post, should have offered more info.
Good to see you got it going.
Michael Jay
21st Nov 2010
it is the same only different, in explorer right click on computer, then manage, then disk management.
Michael Jay
21st Nov 2010
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The drive isn't showing up because it needs to be Formatted
Open Disc Management and right click on the new Drive. From the Drop Down Menu left click on the Format Option.
After that it will show in both My Computer and Explorer.
Col
After that it will show in both My Computer and Explorer.
Col
Updated - 21st Nov 2010
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seanferd said it needed to be partitioned, so i used my winxp cd and quit the setup after the partition manager. it showed up in my computer and now i can use it.
but how exactly do i get to the disc management?
but how exactly do i get to the disc management?
zack247
21st Nov 2010
I'm not really sure but with XP you open the Control Panel switch to Classic View and then open Administrative Tools, then when the next window opens left click on Computer Management. Wait till the next window opens and then left click on the left hand side Drive Management.
7 is something similar even if you don't have the classic View option and fart fewer options. As I'll not be in for the rest of today I'll post the full directions or you could just look here.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Using-Disk-Management-in-Windows-7-Vista
Col
7 is something similar even if you don't have the classic View option and fart fewer options. As I'll not be in for the rest of today I'll post the full directions or you could just look here.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Using-Disk-Management-in-Windows-7-Vista
Col
OH Smeg
21st Nov 2010
