Hard Drive not recognized

Synharvet · 5 Mar 2011 at 13:42

SO i just built my computer. IM using a SSD and a 500G samsung Hardrive. In the BIOS it shows both but the OS only shows the SSD do i have to format the regular hard drive to make it show in the OS

d_brennen · 5 Mar 2011 at 13:44

Right click Computer in the start menu then choose Disk Management. You should be prompted to initialise and format the 500

Surveyor · 5 Mar 2011 at 14:09

Be careful about formating the HDD.

If you had it connected when you installed Windows onto the SSD some files may have been installed to the HDD and Windows will be broken if you format.

The HDD should have been disconnected when you installed to the SSD.

Synharvet · 5 Mar 2011 at 14:27

Ya t wasnt plugged in during installing windows. Kinda by accident but sounds like it worked out perfect. I got it formatted works perfect now thanks guys

d_brennen · 5 Mar 2011 at 14:30

Surveyor said:
Be careful about formating the HDD.

If you had it connected when you installed Windows onto the SSD some files may have been installed to the HDD and Windows will be broken if you format.

The HDD should have been disconnected when you installed to the SSD.

If the drive wasn't initialised there's no chance any files from the Windows install process would be on it. Agree any installs should be done with only the boot disk plugged in, just good practice

Synharvet · 5 Mar 2011 at 15:54

d_brennen said:
If the drive wasn't initialised there's no chance any files from the Windows install process would be on it. Agree any installs should be done with only the boot disk plugged in, just good practice

well now i know that for the future.

It all worked out perfect for me thanks