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@scaryjam823 is right. Just create a simple volume. After that you might have to formate, the drive, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

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So my roommate bought a computer from her friend, and it kept freezing. I deduced it was hard drive failure because you could hear the harddrive clicking and making dieing hard drive noises. I opened it up and discovered it was an ide drive, pretty damn old, manufacture date of '02 i believe, so i ordered a new drive expecting to just be able to clone the drive.

Got a WD Blue sata drive. Went into the bios, switched the sata to run in IDE instead of AHCI, so i could clone. I boot the system up, windows detects and installs drivers for the new drive, but i can't see the drive under my computer, or anything else. There is just the IDE drive. I can see it in boot options and drive management in the BIOS but not in windows. It's windows 7 64-bit.

 

Anyone able to help me with this?

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Have you initialized the disk in the drive management? Without that you can't detect it in Explorer.

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No, i didnt do that. How exactly do i go about doing this?

Start> In search put disk managment> Find the drive in the list on the bottom half of the page. Right click> format.

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Start> In search put disk managment> Find the drive in the list on the bottom half of the page. Right click> format.

I found the drive, it told me i needed to initialize the disk, i right clicked on the drive. There is no format option, just convert to dynamic disk, convert to GPT, offline, properties, and help. Or do i need to "create new simple volume"?

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I found the drive, it told me i needed to initialize the disk, i right clicked on the drive. There is no format option, just convert to dynamic disk, convert to GPT, offline, properties, and help. Or do i need to "create new simple volume"?

Create a new simple volume if I remember correctly.

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Im going to go try that now, i just saw a how to on overclock.net that correlates with what you are saying.

Don't feel bad I had that same problem when I installed my second drive. I hadn't done a lot of installing new drives, just cloning them so I Thought it was bad, but just had to go through the steps to format it, we all gotta learn this stuff by experience. :D

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@scaryjam823 is right. Just create a simple volume. After that you might have to formate, the drive, but I'm not 100% sure about that.

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Yeah, this is the step i was missing. I created a new simple volume on the new drive and it formatted itself, now i am in the process of cloning. I've never had to have 2 drives in a system before, but i guess this info will definitely come in handy when i upgrade my system to SSD boot drive. I thank you guys for your help.

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No Problem, that's what the forum is for :)

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Should work fine :)

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