Harddrive problem.

mythicdawn07 · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:09

I have an SSD and a 500 mb harddrive but the harddrive doesnt seem to be registering and its plugged in, do i need to put it in raid or something, if so how do i do this?

snaggster · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:14

No it should show.. Have you had a look in the bios? if its not showing in the bios, make sure the power and sata leads are connected.
If the hdd is showing in the bios, boot into windows then right click on my computer and go to disk management and see if you can assign it a drive letter.

mythicdawn07 · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:20

snaggster said:
No it should show.. Have you had a look in the bios? if its not showing in the bios, make sure the power and sata leads are connected.
If the hdd is showing in the bios, boot into windows then right click on my computer and go to disk management and see if you can assign it a drive letter.

Okay its on there, how do i assign it a drive letter?

Colasanto · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:26

500mb hd eh? Bloody hell, going back a bit there

Don't worry, i know you mean GB

Is it a new drive? You'll need to format it in computer management.

Control Panel\System and Security\Administrative Tools
Then click computer management, then disk management.

mythicdawn07 · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:26

Its unallocated how do i sort this?

mythicdawn07 · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:27

Fernick said:
500mb hd eh? Bloody hell, going back a bit there Don't worry, i know you mean GB

Is it a new drive? You'll need to format it in computer management.

Control Panel\System and Security\Administrative Tools
Then click computer management, then disk management.

Haha didnt even notice i put mb.

Colasanto · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:27

mythicdawn07 said:
Its unallocated how do i sort this?

Right click it and format/assign

mythicdawn07 · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:29

Fernick said:
Right click it and format/assign

just says new simple volume is that what i click? Dont want to mess anything up lol.

Colasanto · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:29

Yeh, sorry. Create a new volume

Ain't done it in ages, was going from memory in my head!

mythicdawn07 · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:31

Fernick said:
Yeh, sorry. Create a new volume

Ain't done it in ages, was going from memory in my head!

Nice one sorted i think cheers guys, its weird how my 500gb HD only has 465gb lol.

Colasanto · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:34

mythicdawn07 said:
Nice one sorted i think cheers guys, its weird how my 500gb HD only has 465gb lol.

Meant to be like that.

500 gigabytes = 536 870 912 000 bytes

465 gigabytes = 499 289 948 160 bytes

You will have a bit more than 465gb. But you get 500 000 000 000 bytes.

Destination · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:36

No it isn't.

In normal terms MB is 1024KB which is 1024B*1024B

HD manufactures use 1000 as their stepping, so a 100GB drive is significantly less when scaled with 1024.

mythicdawn07 · 1 Mar 2011 at 14:36

Fernick said:
Meant to be like that.

500 gigabytes = 536 870 912 000 bytes

465 gigabytes = 499 289 948 160 bytes

You will have a bit more than 465gb. But you get 500 000 000 000 bytes.

Ah, Cheers for the help mate apreciate it.