New SATA HDD not recognized, help!

[Rhirtix]

Hey folks.

Installed a new WD Caviar Black 750GB drive for backup purposes today. BIOS recognizes it. W7 recognized it and installed the drivers. The drive, however, doesn't appear under My Computer. I reinstalled the drive, this time with a different SATA cable into a different SATA port (from SATA 2 to SATA 3), and the drive is still recognized in BIOS but not in W7. Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[Rhirtix]

Nevermind...figured it out

 

[tommyttt5]

Nevermind...figured it out

So how about telling the rest of us how you solved the problem. Perhaps others also have this or a similar problem and could use the guidance.

 

[faithless]

Quite!

Sounds similar to my problem, so - how about putting is dunderheads out of our misery?

 

[Dwarf]

A valid point. If you post a query and then manage to solve it on your own, then please post back, not just saying that you have resolved the problem, but how you did so. That way, you will be helping others in the same (or similar) situation.

 

[Sonnyjo]

Yes please post how you solved your problem. thanks

 

[Adrian]

HDD

Best guess scenario, after installation and running post the drive letter was not assigned.


Adrian

 

[Smowke]

my guess is that the plus + sign was clicked on in my computer .. the drive list was not expanded possibly .. providing this is windows XP ... or rescanning of the disks had to be done in disk management

 

[zzz2496]

An uninitialized disk won't appear in "My computer"...

zzz2496