Adding second HD

[wmauctions]

:huh:Hi all and good morning

I added a second HD and rebooted win7. computer did not reconize second HD ( I knew It wouldnt) restarted computer hitting f2 to go into setup, scrolled down to drivers tried to turn on second HD, I get a message that says its (LOCKED) asking for a password?? the only password I remember getting was in the install process and that password dosent work?? what is the default password??
or how to change the one I don't know???LOL

I tried every passdword I could remember nothing works,and NO i dide't make a password back-up disk, I didn't know it could be done until reading before posing this question!!


Other than that today being our 40th wedding anniversary everything is GREAT!!!


Don:roflmao:

 

[Solarstarshines]

uhmm have you seen the drive on system when booted ?

and did you adjust the boot settings and sata in bios ?

and also in order to use a raw drive when booted has to be formated first then it will be usable maybe that is why it is locked because i never heard of you needing a password unless you have a boot password

also the password thing might be case sensitive

 

[wmauctions]

(uhmm have you seen the drive on system when booted ?) NO it diden't show??
tried the case sensitive thing Its got me baffled?

 

[Solarstarshines]

have you tryed to boot that drive in front of the main drive to maybe get a promt ?

im not sure if that would work but i would try anything at this point if that doesn't work i would go the the hdd maker site and read up on how this hdd is supposed to be set up

is this sata 1 or 2 and does your mainboard support any of those ?

what is the hdd drive make too i will look up the issue and see if i can come up with something

maybe type the password of the admin ? log on ?????

 

[wmauctions]

Yes both HD are sata and I think the brand is baracoda 160 gig I'm not home right know at(work)!!

 

[theog]

Is the HD showing in BIOS?


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[wmauctions]

Is the HD showing in BIOS? ( Yes but its turned off sorry about that )
Disk management only shows C,dvd.cd ,A drives

 

[Solarstarshines]

ok i know i had to do this before im using barracuda it is not a password you need you need to go to installed hardware right click on the drive with the caution mark on it then from there go to properties and you should be able to enable the drive and make it show up

i knew this sounded familliar i had the same type situation but you unlock it after you already have booted then you click on the caution then the list of things you can do will be in properties

 

[wmauctions]

I will try that when I get Home Thanks to all and I will let you know what happened!

 

[Solarstarshines]

good luck i hope this solves the issue

 

[wmauctions]

Where is the installed hardware at???

 

[Petey7]

I believe he means device manager. Go to control panel, set the view to small icons, click device manager.

 

[wmauctions]

Stil back to square one!

set up f2 down to security and can't change/remember ever having a password???

Don

does not show in device manager

 

[Petey7]

Have you tried looking on the Seagate website. There might be a solution or a method of contacting someone on there.

 

[DocBrown]

Stil back to square one!

set up f2 down to security and can't change/remember ever having a password???

Don

does not show in device manager

Is this a brand new HD or a used HD ? Make & Model # ?

 

[Petey7]

Doc, has a point. If it is used it might have been locked by the previous owner and he/she forgot before giving/selling it to you. If that is not the case, since you identified it as a Seagate Barracuda, I still think giving there website a look is a good idea.

 

[sygnus21]

Stil back to square one!

set up f2 down to security and can't change/remember ever having a password???

Don

does not show in device manager

Is this a brand new HD or a used HD ? Make & Model # ?

I was wondering when someone was going to ask that question as it seems the hard drive was/is locked for a reason

I suspect the only way to get around that little inconvenience is to reformat the drive... thus erasing all the data.

"New" hard drives don't have passwords

My two cents

 

[wmauctions]

After reading the last couple posts here is what I Think, the problem is with the original HHD I bought about 2 month ago secondhand 500 gig, The second HHD I installed was pulled from one of my other computers and was working fine, I have lots of stuff stored on it and just wanted on my newer computer.

Don

 

[wmauctions]

Hi All

Here is how I fixed the problem! Removed second internal HHD and plugged in a 500gig external HHD I had extra. Win7 picked up external driveand all is well.
Not what I wanted but it will work. thanks to all who Helped with this problem.

Don