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So I got a Terrabyte (sp?) 2nd hard drive. I plugged in the SATA cable and power supply, but now am lost.. should it just pull up on My Computer now? Anybody got any general advice for me? Thanks in advance.
 
So if you have 2 hard drives, the jumpers on the one that has your operating system on it needs to be the master, and the new hard drive that you just installed needs to be set as the slave.

Do you know what jumpers are?
 
You need to go into disk administration and create a new volume and format before it shows up.
 
I didn't see anything about it not being detected by bios... you should be able to see that at boot up... or if you go into bios settings. Most drivers these days you don't have to mess with that or jumpers.
 
Paxil said:
I didn't see anything about it not being detected by bios... you should be able to see that at boot up... or if you go into bios settings. Most drivers these days you don't have to mess with that or jumpers.
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Wrong. Bios will NOT detect the drive if both are set to master by jumpers. Unless you have a new mobo that has port jumpers that take precedence to the HDD jumpers. Which I doubt is the case.
 
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hmmm I wasnt aware of any Jumpers thing. RickyRubio is right though about it not being detected for me.. sorry if I didnt state that. I did the whole Right Click My Comp, Manage, Storage etc, and cant find nothing.
 
BrianWheeler said:
hmmm I wasnt aware of any Jumpers thing. RickyRubio is right though about it not being detected for me.. sorry if I didnt state that. I did the whole Right Click My Comp, Manage, Storage etc, and cant find nothing.
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I bet you it's the jumpers then. There are little jumpers on the back of your HDD, usually next to the power. Most HDDs will say 'Master, Slave or Cable Select' next to the jumpers. For your new SATA drive, put a jumper on 'Slave' and then plug it back in. You should be able to see the drive in BiOS and Windows now.
 
BrianWheeler said:
hmmm I wasnt aware of any Jumpers thing. RickyRubio is right though about it not being detected for me.. sorry if I didnt state that. I did the whole Right Click My Comp, Manage, Storage etc, and cant find nothing.
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Oh, and any smart tech would assume that it wasn't detected :) right Paxil? :crazy::tsktsk:

No need to mention that.
 
RickyRubio said:
I bet you it's the jumpers then. There are little jumpers on the back of your HDD, usually next to the power. Most HDDs will say 'Master, Slave or Cable Select' next to the jumpers. For your new SATA drive, put a jumper on 'Slave' and then plug it back in. You should be able to see the drive in BiOS and Windows now.
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awesome I will try that when I get home from work! THANKS! repped.
 
RR... since Sata drives don't have master slave jumpers... and he did say it was a Sata drive... I doubt that is it. ;) A jumper on a Sata drive is usually to slow thoughput for an older motherboard... but honestly I have never even had to mess with that on a Sata drive.
 
Hey Brian are running Vista or XP? If you already figured everything out, ignore this message
 
Paxil said:
RR... since Sata drives don't have master slave jumpers... and he did say it was a Sata drive... I doubt that is it. ;) A jumper on a Sata drive is usually to slow thoughput for an older motherboard... but honestly I have never even had to mess with that on a Sata drive.
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I honestly didn't know that SATA does not have jumpers. I just assumed. And I asked a couple of guys next to me that are 'supposedly' really good with hardware... and they said that SATA drives do have jumpers. But this isn't the first time they have let me down lol

Thank you for the lesson!
 
Some SATA drives get their power from the SATA cable and some need to be plugged into the power supply. If it's not getting power, it won't be detected, naturally.

One thing you can do is keep the case off and power up the machine and see if you can hear the drive spin up.

I think SATA would determine master/slave from which connector on the motherboard the drive is plugged into.

And one last thing, when your computer first boots, right away you should be able to hit F2 or DEL or some key shown on the screen to enter the bios. From the bios menus, you should be able to find a way to detect the drive or tell the bios to scan to find the drive is connected.

EDIT: google is your friend. You can even google on bing.

http://www.welovemacs.com/doinetojumys.html

Do I need to Jumper My SATA drive?

[FONT=arial, helvetica]The worst part about installing hard drives is setting the jumpers on the drive so that it works correctly with your current hardware. Luckily, the newer Serial SATA drives do not require you to change jumper settings, and so they're very easy to install.[/FONT]
 
BeerBoy said:
Any update BW?
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Sorry just now saw this message... It didnt have slave Jumpers and I was kinda lost, so I took it to a friend who is good with PC's. Turns out that the PC was infested with a virus that kept freezing up the PC and not loading proper registries.. had to boot the PC with a "Ultimate Windows Boot Disc" I had never heard of that before. So when it booted with that, I was able to find the HArd drive that way. Normally I guess these SATA drives are just plug and format. Thanks for all the help though guys. Oh and I just backed up the stuff I wanted to keep and restored the whole effin PC.
 
ppilot said:
Hey Brian are running Vista or XP? If you already figured everything out, ignore this message
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lol yeah I had a friend help me with my XP stuff. Thanks though for the thought.
 
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