[Tig.]

Okay, so right now, I have 2 hard drives connected via SATA on the Ga-Ma770T-Ud3p.

One drive is a Western Digital Caviar Blue 320GB.
The other is a Hitachi Deskstar 7K160 that came with an old Acer Aspire I had.

How come whenever I press My Computer, only the WD Blue shows up? Also, why is the total capacity only 298GB? Shouldn't it say 320GB?

I can see the drive in device manager, but I can't use it..

 

[FiX]

Right Click on my computer, go manage, go computer management and format second hard drive

 

[T3h_Ch33z_Muncha]

if it isn't formatted, you can't use it.

 

[FiX]

But I find it doesn't display in My Computer

 

[Tig.]

Quote:

Right Click on my computer, go manage, go computer management and format second hard drive

Quote:

Originally Posted by T3h_Ch33z_Muncha if it isn't formatted, you can't use it.

Okay, when I pressed format on the second drive, it says, "Windows cannot the system partition on this disk".

 

[FiX]

Is that all it says??
I mean, "Windows cannot the system partition on this disk." doesn't make any sense.

 

[T3h_Ch33z_Muncha]

what OS are you using? Be good if that kind of info was in your sig...

 

[FiX]

By the looks it is some form of Vista

 

[Tig.]

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Originally Posted by FiX Is that all it says?? I mean, "Windows cannot the system partition on this disk." doesn't make any sense.

.. I'm ******ed. This is what I get for 4 hours of sleep.

"Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk." is really what it says.

Also, I am using Windows 7 64Bit.

 

[ACM]

Try this.

1. Check BIO's to see if it is even reading it.
2. turn off pc
3. turn off PSU
4. unplug all Hard Drive connections
5. replug all Hard Drive connections
6. Turn on PC
7. Check BIOS again
8. See if it shows up now
9. if not try different sata of IDE slot and repeat 1-8.

 

[T3h_Ch33z_Muncha]

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Originally Posted by ACM Try this. 1. Check BIO's to see if it is even reading it. 2. turn off pc 3. turn off PSU 4. unplug all Hard Drive connections 5. replug all Hard Drive connections 6. Turn on PC 7. Check BIOS again 8. See if it shows up now 9. if not try different sata of IDE slot and repeat 1-8.

that's all pretty irrelevant because it shows up in device manager. this is a simple case of formatting the drive.

 

[FiX]

Take a look at this maybe.

 

[ACM]

Quote:

Originally Posted by T3h_Ch33z_Muncha that's all pretty irrelevant because it shows up in device manager. this is a simple case of formatting the drive.

Solved my IDE problem while ago.

 

[FiX]

Have you read this? I think the post at the bottom is most relevant.

 

[Tig.]

Okay.. I think I am really stupid.

All I had to do was assign the Hatachi Deskstar a letter.. I changed it to to the letter E: and now it works..

I'm sorry for all the problems.

Stupid 4 hours of sleep.

 

[FiX]

Well its FiXed now

 

[Tig.]

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Originally Posted by FiX Well its FiXed now

Thanks for the help. If you didn't show me that link, I would have never guessed it. Lol.