I've installed a second Hard drive into my computer, plugged in the power cabe and the data cable. Powered up my PC and looked on My Computer, but it dosen't show up. Gone into Device Manager and its there, and supposedly working fine. Whats wrong?? Why isn't there an icon in My Computer??
Please help!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-03-17 09:53:13 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
the reason it doesn't show is it needs formatting if you have xp go to the control panel click administrative tools >computer management when it's loaded look down the left pane you see disk management click it then it'll list you disks the one you have just fitted should show here right click on it and click format after formatting it should now show in my computer if it doesn't reboot then check
2007-03-17 10:01:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Great Question and thanks for participating. When installing a new hard drive, you first have to set it's "jumpers" that associates how it's to be used, as a "Master", "Slave" or "Cable" connect. The 40 pin IDE cable that connects to the motherboard and to the hard drive sometimes has and extra 40 pin connector on it in case you ever need to install another device. That device would use that extra connector and of course would be called a "Slave" drive,,,simply because the main hard drive would have been selected as the "master" drive. On the back of every hard drive where all the cables are connected, you'll also see the area where the proper jumper is selected as a Master, Slave, or Cable. The diagram there will show you how to set it up as a "Slave" drive. Just move the little plastic jumper to the correct pin position. After restarting the computer..it should now see the new drive. Holla if I can help further. Larry Radio Shack 01-9590
2007-03-17 17:26:17 · answer #2 · answered by dumbbutt4321 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Okay, there's a few things you have to do.
Assuming your computer is slightly older and has two banks of EIDE drives, you have to check out what drives are already on the computer.
Each EIDE cable supports two drives: a master and a slave. If you're adding a drive onto a cable that already has one drive, then you have to change the jumpers on the new drive to be a slave.
Second, when you boot up your machine (after all the drive connections are done), hold down the delete key to get the BIOS menu. Work your way through the menus, and find the new drive. Tell the BIOS to auto-detect the drive, and save the settings.
Finally, after you start up Windows, go into Computer Management_>Administrative Tools->Disk Management, and set your partitions, and format the drive.
Yeah, I know, any Mac user reading this right now is busting his gut with laughter.
2007-03-17 17:11:16 · answer #3 · answered by Rando 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make sure the jumpers are set right on the back of the new HDD. When you boot your PC go into the BIOS, normally DEL key at start of boot sequence and check that the hard drive has been registered there first. Once it has save and exit and allow boot up. When in Windows format the drive.
2007-03-17 17:03:21 · answer #4 · answered by ragingmk 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is the size of your new hard drive? if it is more than 137 gb then it will not show because windows needs to update its registry to allow 48 bit encoding rather than24 bit for smaller hard drives. By default the largest size of hard drive that is allowed under that is 137gb. So you may need to run the setup disc that came with your hard drive, that should allow you to partition it or possibly just allocate all the available memory to one drive letter if you'd like. If you don't have the disc then you can get a third party disc partition software like partition magic. Hope that helps.
2007-03-17 17:14:54 · answer #5 · answered by DJ Ov3rD05e 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds to me as if the new drive has not been formatted correctly, did you format it first.
If your using xp you need to format it in NTS format.
put your xp disk in and reboot ( make sure you can boot from cd first in bios, if not alter it so the cd is the first boot device.
when windows install finishes its loading, click on "install windows" you will then be taken to a new screen that shows you the two diska, choose the new disk, it will then state that the disk needs to be formatted, choose the NTFS system ( quick format)
when thats done, take windows disk out, reboot and it should show up in windows
good luck
clive
2007-03-17 17:02:45 · answer #6 · answered by Clive F 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
possibly you may have the jumpers on the back of the drive set to the wrong settings. if theres already a drive, optical or hard disk, on your ide chain(the ribbon cable) youll probably have to switch the jumper settings on the back from master to slave. the diagrams are usually listed on the drive, but you may have to do some web searching on your particular drive.
2007-03-17 16:58:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does it show up in DOS (known as the Command Prompt these days)?. If so, there could be something (like TweakUI) which is telling Windows not to display that drive letter.
2007-03-17 17:06:04 · answer #8 · answered by Stephen L 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Have you set the jumpers to master and slave? Also have you run the setup CD that came with your hard drive?
2007-03-17 16:56:42 · answer #9 · answered by Little anionyx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Besides configuring the second hard drive as "Slave" sometimes the original hard drive jumpers need to be changed from :
"Master"
to:
"Master w/slave present"
regards,
Philip
2007-03-17 17:10:20 · answer #10 · answered by Philip T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋