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[MarchWaltz]

 I recently installed 2 seagate hard-drives (2TB barracuda, 500gb regular).

They hard-drives are spinning, and everything is connected correctly. However, my comp (windows 7) can't seem to find them. I tried to download drivers but appearntly seagate has nothing. Tried to go to storage and disk mana, but nothing.

The HDD's are connected properly, but my comp refuses to talk to them.

My comp is such a jerk.

I know I can go to a comp help forum but I rather ask hear since I already have an account here

[MarchWaltz]

I am booting from my old one. There are a total of 3 drives in my comp now; 1 old and 2 new.

Everything is connected correctly.

[Eurypterid]

Are your drives showing up in BIOS? If so, then you need to initialize and format them:

Start Button->Control Panel->System and Security->Create and Format Hard Disk Partitions (This is found under the Administrative Tools)

Make sure the disks are initialized, then format them.

[wolfsite]

As above poster said go into your BIOS at startup to check if they are being listed.  Some motherboard BIOS can only support a certain number of Hard Drives (despite the number of inputs on the board itself) so if you have three but the BIOS can only see two that may be causing the conflict.  It may also be possible that the BIOS does see them but set them up incorrectly as well which can be fixed manually.

[bmwcrazy]

Yup, you need to initialize them and format them in Disk Management. Quick format will do.

[MarchWaltz]

So, I solved it. I...forgot to plug in the power. Heh.

Anyway, I cloned a drive so I have two hard-drives with the same info...however I set my second new drive to boot and as a master but it still boots the old drive.

I know this by: 1) the sata names
2) I made two seperate folders on each drive on the desktop.

[Eurypterid]

MarchWaltz wrote...

So, I solved it. I...forgot to plug in the power. Heh.

Anyway, I cloned a drive so I have two hard-drives with the same info...however I set my second new drive to boot and as a master but it still boots the old drive.

I know this by: 1) the sata names
2) I made two seperate folders on each drive on the desktop.

Switch ports and see if that works. Plug the second drive into SATA port 0 (I assume this is where your first drive is plugged in) and your first drive into SATA port 1 (assuming that's where the second drive is plugged in).

A question though: why are you trying to boot from the second drive? Just testing it? If so, then just unplug the first one and boot your rig. It should detect the second drive as the first boot device and fire it up.

[bmwcrazy]

Or you can go into BIOS and change the boot order.

[Eurypterid]

bmwcrazy wrote...

Or you can go into BIOS and change the boot order.

Not sure if that will work, as I believe Windows looks for an OS in port 0 first by default and if it finds one, it boots from that. But I could be misremembering.

[bmwcrazy]

Sure it works. Most motherboards let you choose which HDD or RAID volume to boot from.

Modifié par bmwcrazy, 17 octobre 2013 - 03:46 .

[Eurypterid]

bmwcrazy wrote...

Sure it works. Most motherboards let you choose which HDD or RAID volume to boot from.

Yes, I understand that, but for some reason I was under the impression that despite that if there's a valid Windows OS plugged into port0, it will boot from that. Again, I could be misremembering but I seem to recall someone on one of the tech boards I frequent having an issue very similar to this. Could well be wrong though. Easy way to check is, as you suggested, to go into the BIOS and see what happens.

*edit* Ack. Nevermind. I recall what I'm thinking of now and I'm totally off base. Carryon folks, nothing to see here.

Modifié par Eurypterid, 17 octobre 2013 - 04:05 .