When installing a second sata hard drive....

[wakawaka]

Do I just plug the sucker into the second plug on my motherboard? I have an msi rs480 motherboard and it has 4 connectors.

 

[ixelion]

Yup, make sure your using the same controller tho as some mobos have 2 controllers.

 

[wakawaka]

Hmm...well, I installed the sucker and nothing popped up about new hardware....bleh

 

[wakawaka]

Not showing up at all and it mentions nothing about 2 controllers on this board(msi rs480) in the manual Well dang...

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: wakawaka
Hmm...well, I installed the sucker and nothing popped up about new hardware....bleh

If the drive isn't formatted, you need to go into Disk Management and format it there before it will be usable. You shouldn't have to do anything but plug it in (and make sure the controller is enabled in BIOS, but if you already have one SATA drive, it must be on). Your BIOS should also display which drives it detects as it boots up.

 

[wakawaka]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: wakawaka
Hmm...well, I installed the sucker and nothing popped up about new hardware....bleh

If the drive isn't formatted, you need to go into Disk Management and format it there before it will be usable. You shouldn't have to do anything but plug it in (and make sure the controller is enabled in BIOS, but if you already have one SATA drive, it must be on). Your BIOS should also display which drives it detects as it boots up.

Well, I went ahead and formatted it through computer management as a simple dynamic drive 😕

Anyways, the first problem where it didn't recognize it was because for some reason, this one, unlike my Hitachi, needed a Molex plugged into it. Western Digital's website is damn good for troubleshooting 😀

 

[corkyg]

It has to get power from somewhere. If not a SATA power plug, then the alternative is Molex. But - never both! 🙂