• Bought new hdds. Windows can't find them.
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So i got my new 500g 2x today and now when i try to start my windows 7 ultimate 64-bit can't find them. When i look in bios they are there. Do i need to do something else in bios to make them work?
[QUOTE=ica|kvantum;20171988]So i got my new 500g 2x today and now when i try to start my windows 7 ultimate 64-bit can't find them. When i look in bios they are there. Do i need to do something else in bios to make them work?[/QUOTE] Most HDs should be auto-detected. Make sure they are formatted. Also check if the jumper is set correctly to the master/slave drive that you bought. [img]http://www.dancetech.com/aa_dt_new/articles/pc_build_xp2000_kt333/drives/build_pc_xp2000_maxtor_40gb_jumper_matchup.jpg[/img] That's everything I could think of.
If you bought them recently they're probably SATA, which means you won't have to set jumpers.
it is 2 Western Digital Caviar Green WD5000AVDS 500G SATA2 [editline]03:17PM[/editline] Whait what? I can't see the hdds on my computer but i can see them in device manager? Can it be that my CD is named (E). My 2 hdds i have now (my old ones) is C and D. And i want to have my 2 new too. Do i need to rename or do anything? EDIT: One of my old ones have "location 1 (channel 1, target 1, lun 0)" and the other old one has "location 1 (channel 0, target 1, lun 0)". One of my NEW one has "location 0 (channel 1, target 0, lun0)" and the other new one has "location 0 (channel 0, target 0, lun0)" Does this say anything? [editline]03:47PM[/editline] Wow i got it work.
your supposed to format them in device manager
Found this on another site [QUOTE]in windows right click on my computer icon/manage/disk management. You should see that drive in there. all you have to do is right click on it and format it and your done. Now Windows will see.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=ica|kvantum;20173573]Found this on another site[/QUOTE]That's correct, but you don't even have to format it. You just assign it a drive letter, and it's there.
Format them (Make sure you format them to NTFS)
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