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New build wont detect HDD
ok so as most of you teck people know I built a new PC. Everything is running fine except for one thing. While I set up my SSD as my boot, and its functioning properly, windows (7 64bit) is not detecting my secondary HDD. So that means I dont have my mass storage. Which means I cant store games and media, the SSD is too small for that, until I get it working
The bios does recognize that its connected I attempted to instal windows on it to see if that would help but it said it wasn't valid for some reason. Motherboard is a msi: 760GM-p34 (FX) To recap the motherboard detects it (not 100% if its enabled I am not used to this bios), but windows does not. I have installed all drivers. Will post any more informations as it comes up. Tried looking it up myself but most information I can find says this shouldn't happen because windows should auto-detect it.
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10-18-2012, 03:38 PM
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Explain the Second Hard Drive in more detail. How old is it? Does it use Pins and the "Ribbon", or is it a SATA Hard Drive? Does it have pin selector?
Ensure the Motherboard has it enabled. That is absolutely important. If you are unsure, post a camera shot of the BIOS screen.
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10-18-2012, 03:44 PM
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There's something in windows volume management where you may need to assign a drive letter and/or format or partition the newly connected drive. Is it already NTFS formatted? Does it have existing data on it?
>> Go to the Disk Manager and Initialize, format and select a drive letter for the new drive. This should fix your issue assuming you have it set up properly in BIOS. SATA vs. IDE is the big thing though, if it's SATA you need to ensure it is configured appropriately in the BIOS. If it's IDE then come out of the 90s and get a good hard drive.
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10-18-2012, 03:48 PM
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It is a SATA, plugged into the third slot if that matters, and not sure about the pin selector. I saw what appeared to be one but didn't think too much on it. To be more exact there was a 4pin slot which I couldn't identify a purpose for. Sadly when it was delivered from newegg all it had no box and was just in bubble wrap I will try and get a screen shot of the bios. As I said I'm on the new build so the methods I normally use aren't loaded up yet. Going to try and think up some work arounds or atleast a clear way to identify if it is or is not enabled.
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10-18-2012, 03:50 PM
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There are two slots available to plug into as an aside, one which you connect the cable from the drive to the mobo, and one where you connect the drive to the power source. If you only have one cord attached to the drive then it's not going to work...
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10-18-2012, 03:57 PM
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when I first opened it it asked how I wanted to partition it, I selected GPT As you can see drive 0 is the SSD and drive 1 is the HDD. Not sure how to NTFS format it like this though. Normally I do that through windows boot disk but as I said it wont let me for some reason. Nor how to assign it a letter and rather not blindly click around
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http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/w...disk-partition should answer the remainder of your questions. Go with the top one, "To create and format a partition (volume)".
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10-18-2012, 04:17 PM
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Ok its formated and working, thank-you. as a final general question any suggestions on what is best to put on which device is welcome.
I need to change default save locations but if its like XP it should do that automatically when I start using the new one
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10-18-2012, 04:19 PM
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No files (pictures, music, etc) on the SSD. You could consider putting applications on the SSD but probably not games because of the amount of save files and various whatnot they generate. The benefit of an SSD is a very fast data retrieval rate which makes it great for programs, it's less effective for storage though. Also because it has a lower capacity, you would be better served putting your junk on the SATA.
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