Harddrive woes- Please help!

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Howzit people!

I just bought a new hdd and cant for the life of me get it to work. Any help would be much appreciated...

Right, here we go. Its an 80 gig Samsung 7200RPM internal IDE drive with a 2MB cache. At the moment i have it in an external USB harddrive rack. I simply took out the old 20 gig one that was in there and working fine and replaced it with this one.

During boot-up it shows up fine as USB storage, in the device manager it is listed as a usb storage device and it says it is working correctly...but when i got to 'my computer' it just isnt there....ever.

It has been a long while since i last installed a new internal hard drive. Is there something that i am not doing, that i should be, cos its new?

Really, i have tried everything i can think of. Really hope its something small that i have overlooked..

As the title says, please help!!
 
How do i do that when it does not come up in "My computer"? I cant find using the command prompt either....
 
New HDD's need to be formatted before windows will pick it up.

You can do this 1 of 3 ways.

Insert the windows Disk. Format drive using the Boot disk.
>>>Run >>>cmd >>>> Format (next drive letter after those you can see in my computer)
Use a drive image program like Partion Magic.
 
bekdik said:
Asuming you're using XP, try rclick my computer, manage, disk management - it may be there as an unassigned device.
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Do what Bekdik says - you need to partition and format it and that is simplest via disk manager.
 
Person said:
New HDD's need to be formatted before windows will pick it up.

You can do this 1 of 3 ways.

Insert the windows Disk. Format drive using the Boot disk.
>>>Run >>>cmd >>>> Format (next drive letter after those you can see in my computer)
Use a drive image program like Partion Magic.
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Thanks for the help so far....

Command prompt does not seem to be doing it either...

Using the boot disk, do u mean i put it in and reboot and then go from there? If so, how do i just format the drive without installing windows on it? Is that one of the options? As i said , it has been a long time....

Thanks

h
 
First of all, if u are using anything other than WINXP/2000 the drive needs to be partitioned cause Fat32 does not see 80 GB HDD's

Ask a Dos fundy to help you if u need it to be a Fat32 drive. I would recommend 80 / 3 drives
 
hj2k_x said:
Thanks for the help so far....

Command prompt does not seem to be doing it either...

Using the boot disk, do u mean i put it in and reboot and then go from there? If so, how do i just format the drive without installing windows on it? Is that one of the options? As i said , it has been a long time....

Thanks

h
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Resart PC >>> Set to boot from windows Disk >>>> Same as install all the way to the format>>> Create File system>>> format (after format it will check the disk, before this is finished restart the PC.) Windows will reload from other drive and you will be able to see the new drive in windows.
 
To Boot from Windows XP CD you need to change BIOS settings. At startup press F1, Del or whatever takes you into bios and then under startup or boot change to CD drive as first device. Then follow prompts to partition device device depending on what format you need ie NTFS, Fat 32 etc. Some one else please comment on these instrcutions as I may be getting confused with boot up device and not external drive.
 
Up all night battling with PCs...know that story well.glad you got it sorted eventually! Another happy MyADSL'er:D
 
The actual problem was there wasn't a signature written to the disk. You could've gone right click "my computer" and simply done this through the Disk Management.
 
JUGGY said:
The actual problem was there wasn't a signature written to the disk. You could've gone right click "my computer" and simply done this through the Disk Management.
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for future reference would you care to eleborate? like where do i find this disk management? and what do i need to do then exactly?

l8rs
 
Yeah, the sizing on the FAT32 partitions screwed me over. Got a 60Gb external, wanted to format FAT32 so that my XP and linux can access it .. format 100%, and the command prompt tells me it is too big!! ARGH, had to sit through 2X30Gb formatting exercises :D
 
hj2k_x said:
for future reference would you care to eleborate? like where do i find this disk management? and what do i need to do then exactly?

l8rs
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Right-click "My Computer". Choose "Manage". Then Choose "Disk management".
 
hj2k_x said:
for future reference would you care to eleborate? like where do i find this disk management? and what do i need to do then exactly?
Click to expand...

Disk Management (on windoze; have admin rights first) :
Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management

"Disk Management" is under "Storage"

Right click an empty drive / unpartitioned segment and follow the prompts.

FYI : FAT32 partitions cannot be larger than 32GB, so if you want larger partitions you have to use NTFS.
 
A new year, a new hdd problem...

New 250GB SATA hdd installed and working fine in an external USB enclosure. Took it out of enclosure to install into machine itself , computer would not see it, changed the jumper settings -still nothing.

So I put it back in its enclosure and put everything back the way it was but now it still wont show up on my pc, neither in Computer nor in Computer management...

The machine picks up the USB device, but not the hdd itself...

Any ideas?

I feel like i have tried everything...

Running Vista btw...Doesn't pick it up on XP though either
 
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