i am having a lot of trouble installing my new hard drive it wont be visible in my computer but the device manager says its there can any1 help please!!!!
2006-09-18 17:33:54 · 7 answers · asked by Caboose 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
It won't be visible in My Computer until you create a partition on the drive and format it. This can be done in the disk manager, read this article first to familiarise yourself with partitioning.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_(computing)
I know the article mentions multiple partitions but even if you only want one big partition for the whole drive you still have to create it.
Right Click on My Computer and select Manage. Look for Disk Management in the tree on the left, select it and you can see your new drive. Right click on it to create the partition etc.
2006-09-18 17:39:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well: If u have Windows XP SP2 or SP1 it's all easy
1. Make the 1st hard drive which has the OS the master
2. Make the new hard drive the slave.
Turn ON ur PC and Windows Xp will do the work for you.
If u do not have Win XP SP1 or higher, go to the seagate website, they have a pretty good explanation for what to do.
2006-09-18 18:17:56 · answer #2 · answered by DanTheElectrician 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sir if you are using an ATA drive then you need to check the jumper on the back of the HD. The one on which you have installed the window will work as a master and the other one will be configured through putting the jumper in the righte place as a slave drive. Then you have to plug the data cable to the mother board then in the HD0 and HD1 to the PC have you noticed anything... that putting the righte cable at the righte place is a hell of job so we have put the cables on the righte place.
Goodluck
2006-09-18 17:43:16 · answer #3 · answered by adnanpk83 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Talented up there is right, Make sure the second hard drive is set to slave. Just look on the back of it to se the guide for it. usually a lil piece of plastic you gotta move from one pin to the next, Make sure not to bend those, It should slide over pretty easy
2006-09-18 17:44:13 · answer #4 · answered by myothernewname 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Is it a second hard drive? Have you set the jumper pins to specify master and slave drives? When you have two drives you must tell the PC which drive to boot from; which one is the primary (master) drive. Have you put a file system on (formatted) the hard drive?
2006-09-18 17:40:56 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
First : when you installed it did you set it as salve? did you open the CMOS menu and find it there and if so did you save and exit, did you partition it and format it?if you did not do all of those
your computer will not recognize it.
2006-09-18 17:46:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
as for the 2d hd u could desire to do issues first the grasp hd is desperate as a grasp placing and the 2d hd could desire to be set as a slave or cable sect for the bios to id it .additionally u can do this on pri stap the 2d stap is for cdroms and for the slave hd u could desire to fdisk hd and format it to settle for records with u can used abode windows exployer to do a drag and drop to slave .the bios could desire to id the slave hd or it wont artwork..u dont prefer a os on u can positioned one on if the grasp crash u can replace jumper to make it grasp to used os yet putting os on it is going to used area sturdy success
2016-10-17 06:14:38 · answer #7 · answered by titman 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋