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April 4th, 2010, 02:12 AM
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Installed 500GB HDD, not seen in Windows Explorer
MSI P-35 Platinum/ Intel-2.4- Q6600 Quad/ 3.2GB DDR/ Windows Home 32bit (SP3)
I've spent all day wiping the hard drive,installing Windows Home 32Bit (after having other problems with last O.S.) installed all the MSI Utilites,drivers,software and hardware,then I shut-down,and hooked up my SATA WD 500GB HDD. I looked in the BIOS and it showed both drives..74GB Raptor Sata 5, and WD 500GB Sata 6 in the Bios.
I went to hardware wizard clicked on "already installed hardware" and chose WD500 GB HDD, it said it was working perfectly/
I then went into DEVICE MANAGER and saw the two drives in DISK DRIVES, but when I go into the Windows Explorer Folder and look under MY COMPUTER, all I see is the one 74GB raptor,where all my apps are on. I need this 500GB for storage. I must have a brainfart and too tired to realize if I missed a step in installing this second HDD.
Please Help. Thanks! I don't remember getting an install CD with this HDD.
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April 4th, 2010, 02:59 AM
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If the drive is a new one out of the box, it will need to be partitioned and formatted using Disk Management.
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April 4th, 2010, 06:49 AM
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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000
This procedure hasn't changed since Windows 2000.
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April 4th, 2010, 11:52 PM
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Originally Posted by rivrbyte
... SATA WD 500GB HDD... I looked in the BIOS and it showed both drives..74GB Raptor Sata 5, and WD 500GB Sata 6 in the Bios...
If the WD is a SATA hard disk drive,
Double check that no jumpers are on.
Cheers.
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