Help with 2nd internal SATA HD Installation

DocBrown · 24 Mar 2013

Make a Partition Wizard Bottable CD to examine & format the problem HD

Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD

goldentequila · 24 Mar 2013

I used Partition Wizard, which was able to display HD's correct size and let me partition it. However, even after I re-partition it in NTFS, it is still not good once I log into Windows 7. The same thing, the HD is not displayed, and it displays a wrong size (500GB) under Disk Manager....

DocBrown · 24 Mar 2013

Can you give us a screen shot snip of it ?

Start

Computer Management

Disk Management
Maximize to full screen
Take a Snip of it with the Snipping Tool, Save snip, then upload the snip here in your post.

Gary · 24 Mar 2013

Post a screen shot of what is in Disk Management please.

Gary · 24 Mar 2013

Go to start, Computer management then disk management and use your snipping tool to take a screenshot of what is shown in there. Then post it.

essenbe · 24 Mar 2013

This will help. Screenshots and Files - Upload and Post in Seven Forums

goldentequila · 24 Mar 2013

I'm confused. This is a thread I started, but I see Santiodarc responding in my place lol... *Edit: Nevermind. S/he removed the post. Must have been a mistake.

The second screenshot is from Partition Wizard. As you can see, HD is listed normally there.

DocBrown · 24 Mar 2013

I think Santiodarc was a passing thru spammer (troll) Ignore it.

Gary · 24 Mar 2013

Are you sure that both cables are properly in place? The partition Wizard sees it but that is from a Boot disk, Correct? It may be worth it to check. I am at a loss now..

DocBrown · 24 Mar 2013

I think you need to boot the computer from the Partition Wizard disc. Then delete the old XP HD partition, then recreate a partition on it again, & then format it again in partition Wizard. Then reboot into Win7 & see what it looks like.