additional hard drive

[Ed Fenwick]

Aloha,

I put another hard drive in this computer, however MY COMPUTER won't recognize the drive. If I click PROPERTIES on the C drive, it will show the drive but I can't access it. In COMPUTER MANAGEMENT, the top half does not show the drive but the bottom half does. What am I missing? Thanks God bless Ed

 

[Jacob Dryer]

Right click on the bottom half of computer management where it shows and create an active partition. I can't remember the exact steps but it's pretty simple, I just don't have it right in front of me.

 

[Roger Batts]

IDE or SATA? If it's an IDE, did you make sure the jumper settings were correct or on "Cable Select" or "CS"?

 

[TomT]

Like JDBoxes said, probably just needs to be partitioned. What operating system are you using?



Try the link below for XP.

 

[David Ponder]

Did you put the jumper on the Hard Drive to be Master or Slave? If not using it for your Operating System, I think it needs to be set to Slave.

 

[Ed Fenwick]

Aloha thanks for responding.

JD does the drive need to be partitioned to be recognized?

Tom,Dave the jumper is set to slave. after I transfer the C drive to the new drive, I will set it to master. Does that make sense? C drive which holds windows is too small (13 gig)

Tks Ed

 

[Jacob Dryer]

If your old drive is set to CS that could be part of the issue if your new drive is on the end connector. Then both drives would try to be slaves. However I think you would have booting issues if that was case.



All hard drives have to have a partition to be visible to an operating system. It can be 1 big partition or multiple smaller partitions, then the letter designator is assigned to a partition. So if you can see the drive in computer management, but don't have a letter designator then you more than likely don't have a partition, or it isn't formatted correctly to be recognized by windows.

 

[Ed Fenwick]

Hooray JD& Tom your the best!! I did a partition and the drive shows up in MY COMPUTER now.

So, can I drag and drop drive "C" to the new drive. Then reset the jumpers and the cable so that I can operate windows from the new drive? Something in the back of my mind says that everything will not be transfered by drag n drop. I am having trouble getting GHOST to run.

 

[Jacob Dryer]

You need a disk cloning software, it can not be run inside windows since the system files can't be copied while they are in use.



If the drive was a retail packaged drive it may have come with a cd that has the software on it. If not then there are multiple available for purchase, or plenty that are packaged with "tech support/diag" bootable cd's. (Hiren or others)