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Need help with this drive.

Hassan170
By Hassan170
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So this hard drive is pretty old and I'm hoping I can pop it into my laptop but when I did it wouldn't show up so could someone tell me what am I missing here? 

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This here being the drive in question. 

My laptop is the HP 245 G7. 

Also would this drive be SATA 2 not SATA 3 considering how old it is? I thought maybe that's why it didn't work.

The drive connects to the laptop with a ribbon cable so maybe I didn't seat the cable properly.

I used a USB to SATA cable to verify that it is indeed alive and I made 1 simple partition for the whole drive. 

PC: Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB 3200mhz RAM (8GBx2), Gigabyte B550M DS3H, GTX 1050 2GB, 650W Semi-Modular PSU80+ Gold

Phone: Poco F3 8GB + 256GB

Audio: Samson SR850s

Sound Card: SoundBlaster Play 4 USB sound card

IEM: planning to get the KBEAR KS2s
Please be patient with me, I'm fatally dumb and its honestly a miracle I've made it this far

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6 minutes ago, ProRelicXD said:

Normally when u put a new drive into a system you have to go to partitions and format it before it will show up 

So the drive must not be partitioned? 

PC: Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB 3200mhz RAM (8GBx2), Gigabyte B550M DS3H, GTX 1050 2GB, 650W Semi-Modular PSU80+ Gold

Phone: Poco F3 8GB + 256GB

Audio: Samson SR850s

Sound Card: SoundBlaster Play 4 USB sound card

IEM: planning to get the KBEAR KS2s
Please be patient with me, I'm fatally dumb and its honestly a miracle I've made it this far

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17 minutes ago, ProRelicXD said:

More than likely yes.

 

Alright ill try that

PC: Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB 3200mhz RAM (8GBx2), Gigabyte B550M DS3H, GTX 1050 2GB, 650W Semi-Modular PSU80+ Gold

Phone: Poco F3 8GB + 256GB

Audio: Samson SR850s

Sound Card: SoundBlaster Play 4 USB sound card

IEM: planning to get the KBEAR KS2s
Please be patient with me, I'm fatally dumb and its honestly a miracle I've made it this far

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Nope still not showing up in disk management. I think I have a faulty ribbon cable. 

PC: Ryzen 5 2600, 16GB 3200mhz RAM (8GBx2), Gigabyte B550M DS3H, GTX 1050 2GB, 650W Semi-Modular PSU80+ Gold

Phone: Poco F3 8GB + 256GB

Audio: Samson SR850s

Sound Card: SoundBlaster Play 4 USB sound card

IEM: planning to get the KBEAR KS2s
Please be patient with me, I'm fatally dumb and its honestly a miracle I've made it this far

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