Sata HDD Prob

Rebel=UK= · 6 Sep 2006 at 17:06

Ive just bought a Samsung Sata II HDD , my Motherbord isnt Sata II so i chaged the jumper so it runs at sata 1 speed. Ive installed it but it is not shoing up in my computer. Its shows in Device Manager as a Samsung drive, was also making a strage noise for a short while (not the click of death)....any ideas whats wrong?

Im new to sata HDD's. i didnt think you needed to install Sata drivers if its not my primary windows hdd

fobose · 6 Sep 2006 at 17:13

Ah, a lot of people have this problem (with not finding the drive) you need to go in to Control Panel -> Admin tools -> Computer management -> disk management, and then format the drive and it should be fine then

Rebel=UK= · 6 Sep 2006 at 17:18

R right i get ya, im usless with hard drives, well its formatting now and i had to assign i drive letter (G) and now it shows up in my computer so i will let it format now.....Cheers!!

fobose · 6 Sep 2006 at 17:51

If G annoys you, you can change the drive letters on your CD/DVD drives and change the new drive to D or something