new HDD registering as master when i want it slave. how to change??

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Just installed a new samsung spinpoint F3 1TB

Having a few issues getting it setup and partitioned.

I am using Acronis disk director with windows 7 64bit.

Basically i have plugged the hdd in and windows appears to have installed it, but it didnt show in my computer. So i used the disk management facility in programs and features to get windows to see it and ultimately format it.

So far so good.

However i have tried to partition the drive using acronis and it restarted the computer etc. But the partition isnt showing up. Almost as if it didnt work.

Secondly and more importantly the drive is registering is a primary master. With my main drive a maxtor 320gb registering as primary slave.

But i want the samsung as the slave for storage etc. and the mactor is used for my OS.

Is there any way to swap the master/slave round?? i havent noticed any jumpers on the back of the drives so im assuming they dont need them anymore????


Please keep things simple.

Thanks


Tom
 
Shouldn't make any difference which is which, if only 1 drive has the OS on it and it starts up ok then you're fine.

Using windows disk management will be able to partition your samsung easy enough.
 
It doesn't really matter, but swapping which SATA ports the cables are connected to should change the detection order in BIOS.
 
Yep as Zarf says, changing the cables should do it. a lot of bios also let you pick the boot order of your disks anyway, so as long as its booting from the OS disk, and not the data disk, it doesnt really matter what they are called :).

Its quite normal for windows not to display a disk in "My Computer" until after you have configured it with disk management. I dont know about acronis, but as long as the partitions show in disk management AND have a valid format (FAT or NTFS) AND have a drive letter assigned, they should show in "My Computer". If a drive is partitioned and formatted but you havent assigned a drive letter they will still not be ready for use.
 
With SATA drives you need to just go into the BIOS and there will be a menu to change the order of the disks.
 
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