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New Hard Drive not showing up!

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Kishan

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Well, I bought a new hard drive, another Seagate 200GB. I have to replace my current drive, which is the same model as the new one. My new drive isn't being recognized! I can boot fine with my regular hard drive when it is the only drive connected. When I try to connect both drives on cable select with the black part into my current drive and the gray into the new drive, it isn't recognized. Have tried another cable and that hasn't worked either. I've also tried setting up both drives on their own cables so Drive 1 (current) on IDE PRIMARY and Drive 2 (new) on SECONDARY.

Please help🙂

Thanks,
Kishan
 
yes you must first create a primary partion on the drive and make it active, then format it or it will not work. also if youve already dont that, you may need to go into your bios and see if its showing up. and make sure you have the master/slave settings correct.
 
all of the above and also try a slave master config instead of cable select...some drives seem to prefer it.
 
It simply isn't showing up. I checked in the BIOS and in Seagate Tools. What could the problem be? The drive? Hopefully not my mobo.
 
it may not be plugged all the way in. and what is cable select? i only know master/slave. and also what is computer management? just a command prompt or something?
 
It should be showing up in the bios. I would do the following if you haven't already.

- check to see if the drive has power...is it spins up when you turn your box on.
- try a different IDE cable.
- check jumper configuration. make sure you have both drives on the channel set correct.


Hope this helps...
 
Originally posted by: Naustica
Originally posted by: D1gger
Have you gone into computer management to format and initialize the new drive?
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It isn't detected in my BIOS. When I connect both drives, NEITHER show. When I connect my current drive alone, it shows. The new drive connected alone does NOT show.
 
Originally posted by: dartworth
It should be showing up in the bios. I would do the following if you haven't already.

1. check to see if the drive has power...is it spins up when you turn your box on.
2. try a different IDE cable.
3. check jumper configuration. make sure you have both drives on the channel set correct.


Hope this helps...
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1. Drive does have power-makes LOUD clicks.
2. Tried 2 IDE cables.
3. Left it on Cable Select mode. What should I change it to?
 
Originally posted by: KPSHAH316
Originally posted by: dartworth
It should be showing up in the bios. I would do the following if you haven't already.

1. check to see if the drive has power...is it spins up when you turn your box on.
2. try a different IDE cable.
3. check jumper configuration. make sure you have both drives on the channel set correct.


Hope this helps...
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1. Drive does have power-makes LOUD clicks.
2. Tried 2 IDE cables.
3. Left it on Cable Select mode. What should I change it to?
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Try the drive on master. Just try that drive on the cable
 
Did you try letting the BIOS auto detect it by forcing it to? All modern BIOes have a way to force detection. If you tried that, then:

1) Set each drive to SINGLE using the jumpers.
2) Plug in your old drive and see if the bios detects it.
2) Remove old drive, connect the new drive in the same spot.

If the BIOS cannot detect the new drive by forcing detection, the drive is bad.
 
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