[Imglidinhere]

If you look at the sig you'll see that I had a 640gig WD SATA HDD on the way. Well I've just gotten it and it doesn't show up under My Computer. All connections are good and Bios sees it. This is my first HDD that I bought and it's just confusing ya know? If it helps, also, it's a bare drive. Do I need to put something on there before I can use it or should it just be like a plug-and-play deal?

 

[SuppA-SnipA]

it should be just a plug and play deal. are you sure you don't have RAID setup in the bios, that could prevent hard drives from being seen if they were not added to the array

 

[meticadpa]

Name the Drive and format it in "Disk Management".

You can get there by right clicking on My Computer and clicking "Manage" it should then be an option on the left.

 

[Imglidinhere]

Sweet. ^^ Trying now. ^^

::EDIT::

Checked it under Device Manager and it says this:

 

[meticadpa]

I'm 99% sure that that's what you've gotta do.

Other than that, check that the SATA cables not faulty, or try another SATA slot.

 

[Imglidinhere]

check the piccy from last post...

 

[blupupher]

Not device manager, disk management, just click the start button and type disk management and then enter

 

[D3TH.GRUNT]

i had an issue like this before, i ended up having to use [email protected] to wipe the drive then windows recognized it.
heres the link:
http://www.killdisk.com/downloadfree.htm
you have to burn it to a disk then boot from that, and select the hdd then start it up. This might seem dumb, but it fixed my problem which is very similar to yours.

 

[godsgift2dagame]

Quote:

Originally Posted by meticadpa Name the Drive and format it in "Disk Management". You can get there by right clicking on My Computer and clicking "Manage" it should then be an option on the left.

Once you do that, click on Disk Management under Storage, right click on the new drive and press Format.

Once formatted (takes 15 seconds or so), your hard-drive will show up.

 

[wiggy2k7]

Quote:

Originally Posted by blupupher Not device manager, disk management, just click the start button and type disk management and then enter

This ^^^^

Give the drive a letter and format it

 

[Imglidinhere]

What if I can't see it under device manager?

 

[D3FiN3 SiN]

I don't think it using the same file format, like FAT or NTFS (for hard drives, you should always use NTFS).

 

[Imglidinhere]

NEVERMIND. o-o

I fixed it. ^^ being overly paranoid gets in the way sometimes... ^^