installing a new drive

[S.S.Dragon]

so ive had an SSD for several months, cause i wouldnt need a mass storage hard drive for awhile. so i finally got around to getting one. now i need help installing it. i tossed it in, plugged it up and now i need help for the software part. i went into the bios and made sure all sata slots were enabled (which they were, duh ha). i had to buy a sata cable cause my motherboard only came with 2 and i have an SSD and CD/DVD burner for the other one. is it suppose to auto detect or is something wrong/im missing something

[Oshino Shinobu]

Have you assigned the drive partition(s) in Disk Management? Or is it not even showing up in the BIOS?

[S.S.Dragon]

2 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Have you assigned the drive partition(s) in Disk Management? Or is it not even showing up in the BIOS?

not even showing up in the bios, checked twice

[Enderman]

does it have sata power plugged in

[IvanSnipedYu]

3 minutes ago, S.S.Dragon said:

not even showing up in the bios, checked twice

Did you check that power and sata is plugged in securely. Hav you tried using a different sata port. Try using the sata cable from the CD/DVD burner and see if it detects the hard drive.

[Oshino Shinobu]

1 minute ago, S.S.Dragon said:

not even showing up in the bios, checked twice

Try switching around which port the drive is connected to, as well as switching the cable from the ODD to see if there's an issue with the SATA cable. Make sure SATA power is plugging in securely as well. 

[S.S.Dragon]

Just now, IvanSnipedYu said:

Did you check that power and sata is plugged in securely. Try using the sata cable from the CD/DVD burner and see if it detects the hard drive.

i double check i plugged them in well. i suppose its possible it might be just slightly loose. if not, ill try using a different cable

[S.S.Dragon]

alright. so i swapped the cables. it now shows it in the bios, but still doesnt show it under my computer. but i found the drive by computer management. i just dont know how to partition a drive

[S.S.Dragon]

i got disk management up, though its nearly the same as computer management

[IvanSnipedYu]

On 5/16/2016 at 4:58 PM, S.S.Dragon said:

alright. so i swapped the cables. it now shows it in the bios, but still doesnt show it under my computer. but i found the drive by computer management. i just dont know how to partition a drive

right click on computer and press manage. You can partition the drive under disk management. There are numerous videos online on how to do it. 

[Captain_WD]

On 16.05.2016 г. at 2:21 AM, S.S.Dragon said:

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Hi there

 

First - make sure the cables are well plugged in (both the SATA and the power) so you don't have future problems with the drive disconnecting from the system due to loose cables. 

 

Then check if the drive is sitting as unallocated and initialized in Disk Management. http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=dwIAQr
Once there all you have to do is initialize it (if it's not) and then partition and format it . 

You should be good to go

 

If you happen to have any questions - feel free to post back!

 

Captain_WD.