Help with 2nd internal SATA HD Installation

[goldentequila]

Hi,

I have a Windows 7 Ultimate x64 machine. I recently installed a new internal HD through SATA, but Windows isn't recognizing it. It also doesn't let me initialize it due to I/O device error. I know the HD is good. if I boot from a Windows installation CD, I can see it, and I can install another OS on it no problem. Also, this is a 250GB HD that was previously used in a XP machine. One more thing, it is detected in Disk Manager, but it has a wrong size (465.66G) displayed on it. My MOBO's setting was AHCI from the very beginning.

Can someone please tell me what I need to troubleshoot this? Thank you.

GT

 

[Gary]

Can you see it in your BIOS as the proper size? You also may want to make sure it is formatted as NTFS.

 

[goldentequila]

Yes, BIOS shows the correct size. In terms of the format type, that's part of the dilemma. I can't gain access to the HD to do anything to it. I even tried Paragon Hard Disk Manager with no luck.

 

[VistaKing]

Can you view the hard drive in Diskpart ? Click on rb: type CMD in the search programs and files back right disk on CMD and choose Run as administrator .

   Note

Command prompt should up with this path C:\Windows\System32>_

Type

   Note

Press [ENTER] after each command

Diskpart 
List disk

You should see

Disk 0

Disk 1

 

[goldentequila]

Yes. It is listed but with the wrong size still.

 

[Gary]

can you see it in disk management?

admin tools/computer management/disk management.

 

[VistaKing]

What is the file format of the drive FAT32 or NTFS ?

Show us the disk management PrntScrn please

 

[goldentequila]

It just says unallocated, which is what happens when the disk can't be initialized, so it doesn't say its file type.

 

[Gary]

Right click on it and try to format it as NTFS.

 

[goldentequila]

It's not an option.... That's not possible without the disk being initialized first.

 

[DocBrown]

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

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/93322-partition-wizard-use-bootable-cd.html?ltr=P

 

[goldentequila]

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]

Can you give us a screen shot snip of it ?

rb: Start :ar: Computer Management :ar: 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]

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

 

[Gary]

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]

This will help. http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/9733-screenshots-files-upload-post-seven-forums.html

 

[goldentequila]

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]

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

 

[Gary]

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]

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.