Hard Drive Help

[Lee]

Hi again,

I have a SSD which I have installed W7 on, and I also have a WD10EZEX hard drive (Western Digital Caviar Blue). I am trying to get this harddrive to show, at the moment the most I can do is select a primary in the bios but I want the HDD to be like drive X:/ or something working with the SSD which is drive c:\. So, having had a little google I am getting bombared with this who new term to me - "jumper pins". I think I have found the pins however I didn't get any block to set it to slave and there is no diagram on the HDD.

Do I need a jumper thingy or is there an easier way to sort this?
Chippiewill; Kieran; Recursion;

[Kieran]

From looking at that model on Google, it is a SATA drive and therefore does not use the Primary/Slave pins like you used to get on IDE hard drives. Are you sure you have the cables in correctly, including the power and data cable and that they're in the correct port on the motherboard?

If it is then it should just appear in the BIOS and you can select the boot order from there.

Also, what motherboard have you got? I remember there being an issue on one of my old motherboards where only certain SATA ports worked together.

[mrwoooooooo]

go in to disk management and see if you can see it there

[Chippiewill]

It's likely that your second disk isn't formatted. As mrwooooo said look in disk management (Press start then type disk management and it should come up) and it ought to be there. If it is right click and select format and pick ntfs.

[Lee]

Thanks all, I went into Disk Management and activiated it and now I have a nice additional 1TB of space :)

+rep all.