External drive (quick question)


  1. BlinkY
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    External drive (quick question)


    Hi guys would realy appreciate if you could answer this. I have an external western digital HD which is 2x 500gb sata drives that mount to 1tb, I assume there bridged to make the 1 TB possible my question is that ive decided to put these in my pc case(couldnt do it before) as media drives etc, I put both in, but my pc only sees the one 500gb drive is there anything I can do for me to see both. EDIT also ive just noticved I can actualy see the non working drive in BIOS.
    Cheers guys.

    EDIT: just relized ive posted this in the wrong section but please feel free tomove and answer.
    Last edited by BlinkY; 15 Dec 2009 at 14:39.
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  3. BlinkY
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    Dont worry guys Ive sorted it :).
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