New hard drive

Just_landed

I have a new Medion computer with windows 7 on it. I have installed a second Seagate Barracuda ST3500418AS hard drive but when the computer is up and running in my computer the new hard drive does not show up even though it shows in the bios. When I have fitted another hard drive in my old XP based computer it automatically showed up. Would someone point me in the right direction please, Cheers. :huh:

Niv

Not had this problem myself, but I have a few queriy questions.

What sort of HDD is it? SATA /IDE (behind webscene)

Is it set to slave? Is it formatted?

Does it work in your old pc?

Gallstones

You need to partition this drive for it to work,
goto control panel, then administrative tools, then disk management and there you should see the drive listed, right click on the drive and you should have an option to enable it.

Just_landed

Hello people may I thank you both for the quick replies. It is a new sata drive, I tried to install the IDE h/drive I had with a conversion plug in board, that did not show in the bios so I bought a new Sata h/drive. Gallstones (not had yet) you are spot on, one good thing with W 7 in search programs just typed in disk management (could not find it the other way) and opened that up a bit of delving I found what to do with a wizard. Thank you for the help.
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Gallstones

No problems, happy to help.

spud17

I tried to install the IDE h/drive I had with a conversion plug in board,

If it's the circuit board type that goes onto the HD, then I've seen 3 different ones, none worked, I tried several different drives, mobos and all sorts.

I recommend others to avoid and just buy a new drive.

Or for temporary use, something like,

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/USB-2-0-SATA-IDE-CABLE-HDD-W-POWER-ADAPTER-UK-/320383801768?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_Computing_CablesConnectors_RL&hash=item4a985cd9a8