5punk

Ok so i got my new hardware today

graphics card seems to be working ok

but windows doesnt seem to be detecting the hard drive

it's a 500gb seagate barracuda connected to my second sata connector and power is connected fine

it seems to show up in system > hardware > device manager under disk drives, but not in my computer

what am i doing wrong?

nothing at all.

right now you do have a disc installed, but windows doesn't know how to see it.

do this Then right click your new drive and partition etc, you might need to format it too, but i dunno.

it isn't showing up under the disk management thing

does it show in the post screen?

Also, try this it's a nice easy disk fettler thingy

what would it say in the post screen if it was there?

it should at some point list all the connected drives.

alternatively, you can just enter your motherboard's BIOS and find out there. There should be a page for all your SATA and IDE drives.

yays

i seem to have sorted it now

now i just need to transfer all my media from the other 2 disks, about 120gb, could take a while


if i transfer all of my music from my external drive (E:) to the new drive (F:) and then switch the drive letters so the new drive, which will then have all my music becomes E: that won't cause itunes any problems finding the music iwll it?
cos the music will still be in E:/my music/artist/album, right?

that should probably work.

just remember not to open itunes when you're changing stuff.

yea good thinking

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:just remember not to open itunes when you're using your computer

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