new HD (not master) not being recognized.

[moknathal]

Hello. i just got a WD caviar green 1TB HD. i connectedit to the mobo via sata connection and i also gave it power from the psu. when i turn the computer on it dont see the extra drive at all. and its not showing up in disk managment... anyone got any idea? bad drive?

motherboard
EVGA Nvidia nForce 680i sli

main HD with OS
WD raptor X 150gb

Drive i want to add for more space to keep all my music and pics and non gaming stuff on to make my raptor drive faster
WD caviar green 1TB

any ideas why its not recognizing the drive?

 

[Gilly]

Hello. i just got a WD caviar green 1TB HD. i connectedit to the mobo via sata connection and i also gave it power from the psu. when i turn the computer on it dont see the extra drive at all. and its not showing up in disk managment... anyone got any idea? bad drive?

motherboard
EVGA Nvidia nForce 680i sli

main HD with OS
WD raptor X 150gb

Drive i want to add for more space to keep all my music and pics and non gaming stuff on to make my raptor drive faster
WD caviar green 1TB

any ideas why its not recognizing the drive?

does it get recognised ot bootup in the bios

 

[moknathal]

nope does not see it anywhere.

 

[Gilly]

i had the same problem as you when i recently purchased a new 1tb hardrive
not being recognized when my main os was on another hdd ,but i
was getting rid of my other hdd so after removing my old hdd and booted just with the new one on its own recognized it s ,so i installed the os then added my old one just to see if it was incompatible or something it recognized both,
so im not sure if this helps seen as im sure you just want to keep the new hdd as storage and old hdd as main hdd ,but give it a go just booting into the new hdd on its own removing the older one then
with a windows installation cd and see if it recognizes it, just to make sure its not a doa hdd

 

[moknathal]

i have tryed booting that drive by itself to try and install the OS on it but it dont show up. so i'm guessing its a bad drive?

 

[Adrian]

i have tryed booting that drive by itself to try and install the OS on it but it dont show up. so i'm guessing its a bad drive?

Welcome to windows 7 forum.
Are you able to rovide a screenshot of the Disk Management console?

 

[Gilly]

i have tryed booting that drive by itself to try and install the OS on it but it dont show up. so i'm guessing its a bad drive?

Welcome to windows 7 forum.
Are you able to rovide a screenshot of the Disk Management console?

its not showing up,read first post,

 

[moknathal]

as soon as i get home yes. i'm at work. i'm also gonna go swap the drive at best buy just to make sure its not a bad drive. if it dont see the new one than its my comp for sure. ill post ss as soon as i get home.

 

[Gilly]

i have tryed booting that drive by itself to try and install the OS on it but it dont show up. so i'm guessing its a bad drive?

certainly sound that way,
just to be sure have you tried different sata connecters from power supply and different connecters to motherboard .also is the disk actually spinning up when connected up

if still not working id get it replaced fo' sure

 

[moknathal]

thx for all the replys i also posted this question somewhere else but no one is answering. maybe yall can help me out?

i upgraded from windows XP 32bit to Windows 7 ultamat 32bit. my raptor HD is still almost full. is it because there is still the XP partition? if so is it ok to delete teh XP partition and windows 7 will run fine and be like a fresh install?

 

[Gilly]

is it working nw ure hdd?

t re qestion yu just posted, you should have a folder called "windows old" when you click on your hdd in my computer ,and its safe to delete that folder
sometimes it wont let you delete the folder if this happens download this http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html
follow the intructions on that page

 

[Gilly]

congratulations
but this is rellivent how?

actually im gonna try this tomoz because im having problems with my ipod adapter and if this works rep will follow

 

[moknathal]

hey guys. i just got the new HD and it is showing up! now only problem is that its now showing up under HD's in my computer. it shows up in disk managment so how do i get it going? here is a SS of what i see when i right click on it.

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y80/MokNaThal/screenshotofhd.jpg

 

[DocBrown]

Yuor screen shot is not clear enough for me to read & enlarge

Can you do it with the snipping tool & attach with the paper clip icon next to the smiley icon when you post.

Does it show an assinged drive letter ? I can't tell from this pic ?

 

[moknathal]

there u go. you see it? thats only options i get

 

[torrentg]

Moknathal, seems like you have the HDD attached to a raid controller. In your current configuration, it will only let you run the drive as a raid drive. Your motherboard bios, if attached to that, is probably specifying Raid mode as opposed to IDE mode.

You can run it solo under raid. Choose new striped volume. Format it to NTFS.

 

[DocBrown]

Moknathal, seems like you have the HDD attached to a raid controller. In your current configuration, it will only let you run the drive as a raid drive. Your motherboard bios, if attached to that, is probably specifying Raid mode as opposed to IDE mode.

You can run it solo under raid. Choose new striped volume. Format it to NTFS.

torrentg,

I agree that's why it is showing as a black line for th HD & it needs to be formatted

 

[moknathal]

it wont let me. this is what i see when i chose striped volume. it wont let me hit next.

 

[torrentg]

Alright. Your raid controller might not want to run that as a single volume in Raid.

I will not continue with advice. Not out of disrespect or anything like that at all. It's just that it can get tricky and I don't want to be responsible for guiding you on equipment I do not own or use.

That being said, you probably are going to have to change your bios to IDE mode. But when you do that, it is going to mess up your Windows. I'm not going there with this.

Good luck and don't say I didn't warn you.

Safe advice I can give, but don't know if it will help at all. Try running Acronis Disk Director Suite under your current configuration to attempt to format the new drive, in manual mode.

 

[moknathal]

i do not have raid enabled in the bios. does anyone know if i should do that?