my computer wont recognise!

televators · Post by **televators** » December 17th, 2004, 4:53 am

im a noob at this kind of stuff, and this is my first time ever touching the innerds of a computer. but i've seen it done before, so i know (basically) what to do.

i connected a harddrive just now, and i went into settings before windows booted, and went into the blah blah you know, and tried to make the computer recognise the new harddrive, and it didn't. i tried this more than three times, and it still wouldn't recognise it. so umm.. what do i do now??

ps excuse my n00blyness :/ i just really want this harddrive hooked up.

Post by **ccb056** » December 17th, 2004, 12:38 pm

what do you have the jumpers set on, and do you have any devices on the channel, what drive is it?

televators · Post by **televators** » December 18th, 2004, 8:25 am

ccb056 wrote:what do you have the jumpers set on, and do you have any devices on the channel, what drive is it?

yes, what, and i think it's f. but im not sure. it could be d. haha. its been so long since ive used it that i cant remember

AmaD · Post by **AmaD** » December 18th, 2004, 11:22 am

When I installed my new Hard Drive, I made sure it was correctly inserted, and the jumpers were all spiffy, then I went to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Managment -> Storage -> Disk Managment

I think it should automatically come up with something asking about whether you want to set it up etc. But if not, click the Action Tab -> Rescan disks. I think that might work, but if not, post again to tell us what happened

televators · Post by **televators** » December 19th, 2004, 5:42 am

AmaD wrote:When I installed my new Hard Drive, I made sure it was correctly inserted, and the jumpers were all spiffy, then I went to Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Managment -> Storage -> Disk Managment

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i tried that, and it didn't work.

AmaD · Post by **AmaD** » December 19th, 2004, 10:56 am

Strange, Perhaps someone with more experience in this area can help you

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habbojane · Post by **habbojane** » March 18th, 2005, 9:17 am

check to see if bios reconizes it. some bios dont have auto detect. second make sure the hardrive is partition. windows can see a hd if it not partitioned.