Hard drive issues

mulcahy69 · 27 Aug 2011 at 12:53

hey

i have just compleated my first build and i am having problemds locating one of my hard dives within my computer.

I have put in an OCZ agility 3, seagate barracuda 1tb and i picked out a 160gb seagate hard drive out of my old dell pc.

My computer detects the ocz and my old dell hard drive but not my 1tb hard drive.

I am using the SSD just for my os and gonna use the old hard drive as a back up but i cannot find the 1tb hard drive

could anyone help

Surveyor · 27 Aug 2011 at 12:58

Have you checked in Disk Managament to see if the 1TB drive is shown there?

Right click on My Computer > select Manage > under Storage click on Disk Management

freddie64 · 27 Aug 2011 at 13:00

Few things i can think to try.

Power/data cables, are they fully connected.

Is the drive detected in bios.

Does the drive show in disc management.

Also, try a different sata cable and another sata port on the motherboard.

Jasonst888 · 27 Aug 2011 at 13:01

also check device manager to see if it shows up with any problems...

Otherwise crack open the case and reseat all the wires!

mulcahy69 · 27 Aug 2011 at 13:05

i have done that and it has said i must initialize a disk before disk manager can access it.

mulcahy69 · 27 Aug 2011 at 13:09

just had a better look and it is there but it is saying it is not initialized any help how i do that

Surveyor · 27 Aug 2011 at 13:12

Right click on the drive in Disk Management and format it.

d_brennen · 27 Aug 2011 at 13:13

Right click Computer, select Manage, select Disk Management, right click the 1TB drive (will probably prompt you to initialise now anyway) and initialise the disk. Just choose NTFS and Quick Format

freddie64 · 27 Aug 2011 at 13:18

Oops, for some reason i thought both drives was out of the dell.

mulcahy69 · 27 Aug 2011 at 13:21

nice one thanks for your help