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Second HardDrive will not show up.

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my younger brother has a PC with a 70gb Samsung SATA hard drive in it. he has now filled the 70gb and i have got another 160gb sea-gate hard-drive but it is an IDE hard-drive, so i bought a IDE to SATA converter and installed the molex power for the hard-drive and the SATA plus the 4 pin connector on the converter. the hard-drive spins and the light on the converter comes on but the hard-drive does not show up in "My Computer" or in the "Computer Management". SOMEONE HELP ME

 

 

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my younger brother has a PC with a 70gb Samsung SATA hard drive in it. he has now filled the 70gb and i have got another 160gb sea-gate hard-drive but it is an IDE hard-drive, so i bought a IDE to SATA converter and installed the molex power for the hard-drive and the SATA plus the 4 pin connector on the converter. the hard-drive spins and the light on the converter comes on but the hard-drive does not show up in "My Computer" or in the "Computer Management". SOMEONE HELP ME

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You need to assign a drive number first

how do i do that?

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i have just tried that and in the device manager it only shows the Samsung hard-drive

disk management, find the drive or partition, right click, assign letter, pick a letter

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go on Start, type in Hard Drive Setup ( Not sure how its in english ) i got it in german " Festplattenpartitionen Erstellen "

 

Then select your HDD and formate it so you can use it

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i have just noticed that the hard-drive does not even show in the bios. but it turns on and all the cables are connected and working, i have tested them on the other hard-drive.

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i hav checked all the things ppl hav suggested, and still nothing :(

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go to the start menu and search diskmgmt.msc. this will take you to the place were you can set up your hard drive.  here you can format it and assign a drive letter.

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go to the start menu and search diskmgmt.msc. this will take you to the place were you can set up your hard drive.  here you can format it and assign a drive letter.

 

I swear, NO ONE in this thread read the original post.

 

my younger brother has a PC with a 70gb Samsung SATA hard drive in it. he has now filled the 70gb and i have got another 160gb sea-gate hard-drive but it is an IDE hard-drive, so i bought a IDE to SATA converter and installed the molex power for the hard-drive and the SATA plus the 4 pin connector on the converter. the hard-drive spins and the light on the converter comes on but the hard-drive does not show up in "My Computer" or in the "Computer Management". SOMEONE HELP ME

I'd try the adapter in another computer. If you know the hard drive works, then the adapter might be faulty.

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Does the type of IDE to SATA adapter have two SATA ports?

Because if it does, one is for SATA to IDE and the other is for IDE to SATA.

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