Easy Swap HDD Bay

wizzywig27

I recently purchased an Acer Aspire M3920 (http://support.acer.com/acerpanam/desktop/2011/acer/aspire/AspireM3920/AspireM3920sp2.shtml)

I got the option of a 3.5" easy-swap HDD bay and purcahsed a Seagate 500GB 3.5" Barracuda SATA-III 6Gb/s Hard Drive from eBuyer - this arrived this morning and I place it into the easy swap bay but my PC does not seem to recognise is. Is it as simple as placing it in and sliding it in?


I did notice there was no master/slave pin with it, could that be the problem? It does show up in device manager as well!


Thanks

spud17

Have you initialised/formatted it?

Brain gone dead, and not on Win7 to check, but along the lines of,

control panel/ computer admin/ disk managemant, format and assign a drive letter.

wizzywig27

spud17 wrote: »

Have you initialised/formatted it?

Brain gone dead, and not on Win7 to check, but along the lines of,

control panel/ computer admin/ disk managemant, format and assign a drive letter.

Installed a disk management utility tool and managed to partition it, all sorted now, thanks for the help

Hammyman

wizzywig27 wrote: »

I did notice there was no master/slave pin with it, could that be the problem? It does show up in device manager as well!


Thanks

There is no master/slave on SATA. Your drive is working, it just hasn't been formatted and assigned a drive letter and until you do, it won't show up in Explorer or My Computer.