Problem with Seagate Momentus Hybrid?

[princejim]

Just bought the Seagate Momentus Hybrid, just trying to install, but my system does not see the drive (win7). I was going to put it on as drive D drive copy or has someone as said clone the drive with the C drive and use it has the system drive. However, my system does not see the drive, even if I take out all drives except the C drive, any help would be appriciated.

 

[Biz.Kid09]

I had this problem with another hdd, you have windows installed on another hard drive? I had to boot as usual then plug in the new one and format it. Then i restarted and booted into win 7 install and my hdd was there.

 

[umboma]

Just bought the Seagate Momentus Hybrid, just trying to install, but my system does not see the drive (win7). I was going to put it on as drive D drive copy or has someone as said clone the drive with the C drive and use it has the system drive. However, my system does not see the drive, even if I take out all drives except the C drive, any help would be appriciated.[/QUOTE

Does the BIOS see the HDD??

If youre using this in windows, have you run the FDisk to format and partition the drive?

 

[umboma]

Plus might be worth investing and getting a SDD for windows it's got better read speeds and then getting a 1TB or so Hdd for the games and bits and pieces, the hybrid drives are to random, and it'll only work out about £10-£20 more than the Hybrid drive

 

[princejim]

Not for 500 GB it won't I am on a pension every penny counts, I thought this was a good compromise, more speed for less. I hope.

 

[umboma]

you'll only really see the speed on things you'd use a lot as the hybrid has to learn, then stores that on the 4gb SSD thats built in, for around the same money you can get a 64gb SDD and a 1tb HDD, that way you get the speed and capacity.