PC not fully recognising new Hard Drive...

GibsonSt19

Hi all, I'm hoping for some guidance.

I've recently purchased a Samsung HD154UI EcoGreen F2 1.5TB SATA-II hard drive.

I've installed it, into my Medion PC (MD-8396), which has a MS-7502 motherboard (ID'd with thanks to LookInMyPC).

Anyhoo, it's powered and SATA'd up, and appears in the list of devices shown as Windows 7 is booting, and also shows as a drive (SAMSUNG HD154UI ATA Device) in Device Manager.

It doesn't appear in the list of available drives under 'My Computer' though.

I've read about issues with 3.0gbps / 1.5gbps, and have tried the drive in the default state (no jumper set to limit the speed), and with a jumper to limit to 1.5gbps.

I would have thought a PC just over a year old would be able to run a SATA II drive at the latest speeds, so I'm quite stuck.

Any idea, clever people of the internets?

gaming_guy

you need to prepare the disk in disk management

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000 (it should work fine in Win7)

PS. nice typo in the title! :rotfl:

GibsonSt19

Thanks so much for that! I really should have known to do that, but all the reviews I read said they'd popped it in, and worked without configuration

It's getting formatted as we speak. Thanks again.