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adelburn

adelburn

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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?
 
Daft question first - the drive is plugged in correctly, 1 SATA data cable and 1 power cable?

Is the drive spinning up when you power on the PC?

Is the Intel controller enabled and set to Legacy/IDE mode in the BIOS?

There are other things to try but start with those and let me know how you get on.
 
God I wish there was a delete post function...........

As I was checking inside I realised I hadnt connected the power:o
 
more help needed

right so I have now got the disk up and running lol :o 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?
 
PhillyDee said:
Try defragging it first. Dont know if that will help.
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I've tried that and still no luck:mad: ?????

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?
 
I would recommend using some 3rd party application, recently purchased Acronis Disk Editor at work. Find it very good and easy to use.

If you don't want to spend any money (free is good:) ) there is an opensource partition tool called GPARTED that i have been using in the past. It's pretty good and easy to use, but doesn't have all the features of a bought program. You can find it at http://gparted-livecd.tuxfamily.org/

Both tools will allow changing size on partitions that has data on it.
 
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