Hard Drive Not Recognized

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  1. Posts : 128
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
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    Hard Drive Not Recognized


    Hey I have a new Western Digital 500GB Caviar Green Hard Drive, and it is recognized in my computer, it is formatted and I have marked the partition as active. Yet it will not show up in my Windows 7 installation. How do I make it show up in the installation screen?
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  2. Posts : 9,606
    Win7 Enterprise, Win7 x86 (Ult 7600), Win7 x64 Ult 7600, TechNet RTM on AMD x64 (2.8Ghz)
       #2

    Did you assign it a drive letter by right clicking on it ?
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  3. Posts : 128
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
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       #3

    DocBrown said:
    Did you assign it a drive letter by right clicking on it ?
    Yes it is drive letter D:
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  4. Posts : 9,606
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       #4

    Maybe I mis-understood your 1st post

    You want it to show up in the win7 installation screen ?

    Do you want to install win7 on this new drive ?
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  5. Posts : 128
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
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       #5

    DocBrown said:
    Maybe I mis-understood your 1st post

    You want it to show up in the win7 installation screen ?

    Do you want to install win7 on this new drive ?
    Yes I want to install Windows 7 on my new drive.
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  6. Posts : 9,606
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       #6

    What about your current installation, files, progs, etc ?
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  7. Posts : 128
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
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       #7

    DocBrown said:
    What about your current installation, files, progs, etc ?
    I'm going to format format my old hard drive that I have Windows 7 on now once I get Windows 7 installed on my new hard drive.
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  8. Posts : 9,606
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       #8

    I would connect only the new HD then as your primary HD & intall win7 from the DVD
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  9. Posts : 128
    Windows 7 Ultimate 64-Bit
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       #9

    DocBrown said:
    I would connect only the new HD then as your primary HD & intall win7 from the DVD
    How do I get the hard drive to show up on the installation screen first?
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  10. Posts : 519
    Windows 7 Ultimate (64)
       #10

    Is the drive hooked up to different controller, like an on-board raid controller? If so you may need to create a driver disk but it would be much easier to just put on the drive on same controller as the other drive. Simply said, just change to another sata port on the MB...
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