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Hard drive problem

skuzzb · 2008-05-07 21:03:13

Just put a freash 750gb samsung drive in and its being detected by the bios but not by windows.....i know im probably forgetting something really obvious but I cant think of the solution! Its detected by speed fan and by the safely remove hardware thingy but not at all in windows explorer. Cheers for the help, its probably…

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07-05-2008 10:03pm

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skuzzb

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Just put a freash 750gb samsung drive in and its being detected by the bios but not by windows.....i know im probably forgetting something really obvious but I cant think of the solution!

Its detected by speed fan and by the safely remove hardware thingy but not at all in windows explorer.

Cheers for the help, its probably something really really obvious!

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#2 07-05-2008 10:05pm
CarefulNow

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http://www.pcguide.com/byop/byop_SettingHardDriveJumpers.htm

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#3 07-05-2008 10:08pm
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Does it show up in disk management? Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK, click Disk Management.

You'll have to format it, pick ntfs

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#4 07-05-2008 10:09pm
skuzzb

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Ah its SATA2 so no jumpers! Cheers tho!

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#5 07-05-2008 10:12pm
skuzzb

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Cheers POG, up and formatting now. Always forget about the computer management thingy!

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