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New hard drive not seen
Hi all
I have just fitted a second internal hard disk to my PC. Everything appeared to go OK. I set the jumper for slave and everything plugged together fine.
On restart I looked for it and can't see it Win Explorer. It does show up in Device Manager and is reported as being operational. I tried to update the drivers but was told that no newer or better one was available.
What do I do now?
thanks for any help
I have just fitted a second internal hard disk to my PC. Everything appeared to go OK. I set the jumper for slave and everything plugged together fine.
On restart I looked for it and can't see it Win Explorer. It does show up in Device Manager and is reported as being operational. I tried to update the drivers but was told that no newer or better one was available.
What do I do now?
thanks for any help
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These days I usually set them to check the cable position they are on instead. Might be worth checking what both drives are jumpered to be.
That aside you can try Start, Settings, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management. See if there is any clue there.
•Right-click on the device and choose Properties.
•Click on the Policies tab.
•Uncheck Enable write caching on disk.
These days I usually set them to check the cable position they are on instead. Might be worth checking what both drives are jumpered to be.
That aside you can try Start, Settings, Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management. See if there is any clue there.
•Right-click on the device and choose Properties.
•Click on the Policies tab.
•Uncheck Enable write caching on disk.
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Thanks for the reply. I have looked in Computer Management and the new drive is there.
The info boxes give the following data
Disk 1 (with a small red circle which has a horizontal white stripe across it)
Unknown
232.88 GB
Not Initialized
Next to that on the right in says
232.88 GB
Unallocated
How do I 'switch on' this drive?
Thanks for the reply. I have looked in Computer Management and the new drive is there.
The info boxes give the following data
Disk 1 (with a small red circle which has a horizontal white stripe across it)
Unknown
232.88 GB
Not Initialized
Next to that on the right in says
232.88 GB
Unallocated
How do I 'switch on' this drive?
If you create a primary partition it will automatically take the next drive letter after any existing hard drives, which may change the drive letter of your optical drive. Create an extended partition and it should take the drive letter after all existing drives (including any optical drives). Either way it's not a big deal, as you can juggle the drive letters afterwards.