All I have to do is plug it in to the PSU and motherboard right? And then when I boot up it will show up as new hardware? Please confirm this.:smile:
No, Well if you have never set it up before.
You will have to right click on"my computer" and say manage, then drive management, Then you will have to initialize the drive and it will format.
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After you plug it in. Go into the bios to make sure its detected and not set as the first boot device. Then once you boot into windows (if its new hard drive you have to go into the device manager and format it for it to show up in My Computer) check to make sure its in My computer.
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That is the best avatar I've seen yet.
Also, I'm not sure about the drive management thing, you may have to do that. But once you plug it into the motherboard and power supply, go into your BIOS and make sure your first hard drive is highest in boot priority, so it doesn't try loading the OS from the secondary HDD.
[QUOTE=Zoo;17615780]That is the best avatar I've seen yet.
Also, I'm not sure about the drive management thing, you may have to do that. But once you plug it into the motherboard and power supply, go into your BIOS and make sure your first hard drive is highest in boot priority, so it doesn't try loading the OS from the secondary HDD.[/QUOTE]
Cause I didn't just say that.
Yes, but you shouldn't need to change boot priorities. (The new drive won't have any boot information so it will be skipped regardless) - though it [i]Can[/i] speed up POST time if you motherboard does allow per-harddrive boot sequence.
You may need to assign a drive lettert and format wihtin windows though (Windows vista did this for me with the hardware-addition dialog but things can change between computers.)
Thank you guys
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