Hi, I already had one SATA hard drive in my PC and I needed to install another. So I bought an OEM SATA HD, attached the SATA cable to the motherboard, attached the power cable as well, booted my computer up but it's only reading my original HD when I go into My Computer. My new HD isn't showing up at all. Have I missed anything out? I don't need to do anything with jumper settings on a SATA drive do I?
2007-09-12 06:45:43 · 8 answers · asked by GillsMan 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
Go into "Control Panel" "Administrative tools" "Computer management" "disk management" and see if you see drive there. You may have to partition, format and/or allocate it there. DO NOT make partiton active!
2007-09-12 06:54:16 · answer #1 · answered by s j 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You probably don't need to change the jumper settings but you may need to go into the BIOS setup. I know the default setting on my motherboard was to deactivate all additional SATA ports. If you watch the screen carefully when you boot up, after it finishes the memory test, it should say something like, "Press F2 to enter setup." The key you have to press may be different. That should take you to a menu where you can adjust your motherboard settings. Check your computers manual to get the specifics of how to find your way through the BIOS setup, but you should be able to easily activate the port your new hard drive is plugged into.
2007-09-12 06:54:52 · answer #2 · answered by swigaro 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The other answers on this post look basically correct, but first ensure that your BIOS setup has that SATA port active. Some chipsets (ICH6 etc) have a legacy mode for older parallel ATA ports. Depending on which options you have setup that SATA port may be inactive because the logical IDE controller function is directed to the secondary parallel port and not the secondary SATA ports.
2007-09-12 07:00:42 · answer #3 · answered by Rick A 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First check that your bios has recognised the drive. Then go to control panel, administrative tools and computer management. In disk management, you should see the disk, but you will need to set up it's partition and drive letter.
2007-09-12 06:51:52 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Right click MY COMPUTER, select MANAGE
Click "Local Disk Management"
Locate the uninitialised disk
RIGHT CLICK it and create a prtition and format it.
Job done, new drive letter will appear, best to reboot windows before using drive.
2007-09-12 06:54:19 · answer #5 · answered by stu_the_kilted_scot 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
read the documentation that came with your hard drive as you may need to set it up in the bios first but you don't need to set jumpers on the drive
2007-09-12 09:49:04 · answer #6 · answered by dexter 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the new hdd is on it's own ide cable make sure the jumper on the back is set to master, if you use it on the same ide cable set the jumper to slave. then check your bios at the windows start up to see if it is on.then start the computer to see if it sees it.
2007-09-12 06:56:50 · answer #7 · answered by carm 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is a utility driver that will initialize your serial drive other than the windows driver.
2016-05-17 22:35:59 · answer #8 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋