help needed

[adelburn]

I am trying to install a 2nd HDD into my PC but the drive is not recognised in windows or BIOS.

Board is a GA-P35C-DS3R, 2nd HDD is 750gb barracuda. I have my DVD drive and 1ST hdd in the GSATA ports on the mobo and tryin to plug the sata connector form the 2nd hdd into the SATA 0 port on the mobo.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[adelburn]

God I wish there was a delete post function...........

As I was checking inside I realised I hadnt connected the power

 

[adelburn]

more help needed

right so I have now got the disk up and running lol this will be used for storage of media such as music/movies

Firstly I need to shrink the Vista volume I have of my 1st HDD, but the disk management will not shrink below 170gb???? It says I have 120gb free but will not shrink. I have started diskpart.exe from the run command to try and do it that way but still cannot and cannot even convert the disk from a basic disk to a dynamic to see if that'll work but you cannot do it on home versions of vista apparently?

Any ideas on how to shrink this volume?

 

[adelburn]

Try defragging it first. Dont know if that will help.

I've tried that and still no luck ?????

Seems a bit pointless vista having such a (seemingly) good tool, that has a flaw like this.

Really dont want to format the drive and create partitions first.

Anyone have any other ideas?

 

[adelburn]

Cheers for that m8

I'll have a look into gparted when I get back tonight