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Hi,
Ive just brought a new seagate 500gb harddrive from overclockers, i opened up my PC and plugged in the new drive.
I booted up my pc but when i went into the computer management to format the new drive i found that the drive was not being detected.
I turned the PC off and opened it back up to check all of the cables were in correctly. I started it up again and it still wasnt detected.
So i turned it off again and used the cables from my main harddrive (that i know were working) abd plugged them into the new drive to test it if was a problem with the cables, i turned the PC on again and nothing was detected.
I then switched the cables back so that my main harddrive was plugged in again but when i turned the PC back on my motherboard couldnt detect any harddrives at all.
Ive tried using a few different power cables and sata cables on my old and new drive and im not getting anywhere. I have also tried resetting the bios by taking the battery out for a few minutes but that didnt help either.
My main aim at the moment is to atleast get my old hard drive back up and running
If anyone has any ideas of what might be wrong please let me know, i really need to get my PC running again asap.
Thanks for your help,
-Magnumwolf-
Ive just brought a new seagate 500gb harddrive from overclockers, i opened up my PC and plugged in the new drive.
I booted up my pc but when i went into the computer management to format the new drive i found that the drive was not being detected.
I turned the PC off and opened it back up to check all of the cables were in correctly. I started it up again and it still wasnt detected.
So i turned it off again and used the cables from my main harddrive (that i know were working) abd plugged them into the new drive to test it if was a problem with the cables, i turned the PC on again and nothing was detected.
I then switched the cables back so that my main harddrive was plugged in again but when i turned the PC back on my motherboard couldnt detect any harddrives at all.
Ive tried using a few different power cables and sata cables on my old and new drive and im not getting anywhere. I have also tried resetting the bios by taking the battery out for a few minutes but that didnt help either.
My main aim at the moment is to atleast get my old hard drive back up and running
If anyone has any ideas of what might be wrong please let me know, i really need to get my PC running again asap.
Thanks for your help,
-Magnumwolf-