Hard drive

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Aka - May 31, 2010 at 11:41 AM
xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 - May 31, 2010 at 01:28 PM
Hello,
I bought a new hard drive and It will not do anything when I put it into my computer. The hard drive is a Seagate Barracuda 3.5 internal drive 500gb 16 mb 7200 rmp it has sata connections. Yes my computer also has the sata connections. I hook it all up and it does nothing what am I doing wrong or what do I need to do.

thank you,
tammy


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xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
May 31, 2010 at 01:04 PM
You need to format the drive before you can use it for data or even show in explorer.

Right-Click on the My Computer icon either on your desktop or in the Start Menu and select Manage.

A new window titled Computer Management comes up.
Select Storage from the left hand side by clicking it once, then select Disk Management(local) from the right side by double-clicking it. Find your new drive and format it with one large partition.

First you partition - do a primary partition if you want only one partition on the hard drive. Then you format the partition - again right click and select format use NTSF - use default allocation size and give the new volume a label (no spaces allowed in the name).

Good Luck
closeup22 Posts 8922 Registration date Friday May 15, 2009 Status Member Last seen October 7, 2010 2,099
May 31, 2010 at 01:20 PM
Hi there,

Where have you placed the jumper?have you enabled it in bios?

Thanks
xpcman Posts 19528 Registration date Wednesday October 8, 2008 Status Contributor Last seen June 15, 2019 1,824
May 31, 2010 at 01:28 PM
SATA drive has no jumpers.