hard drive help?

[pi1992]

i currently have a 250gb ssd and a 1tb hard drive installed, the ssd being my boot drive. the 1tb hdd is full so im trying to install an old 500gb hdd that i had laying around. most people say to plug it in and boot from the normal drive then go into the control panel and format the drive from there, but when i plug in the third drive, windows doesn't want to load. any help?

[RadiatingLight]

15 minutes ago, pi1992 said:

i currently have a 250gb ssd and a 1tb hard drive installed, the ssd being my boot drive. the 1tb hdd is full so im trying to install an old 500gb hdd that i had laying around. most people say to plug it in and boot from the normal drive then go into the control panel and format the drive from there, but when i plug in the third drive, windows doesn't want to load. any help?

Make sure that the new drive doesn't have an OS on it. if it does, make sure to boot from your SSD

 

It can be tricky, (disclaimer here: do this at your own risk!!) But maybe wait until the OS has booted, and then plug in the SATA data connector into the motherboard/HDD?

[pi1992]

2 minutes ago, RadiatingLight said:

Make sure that the new drive doesn't have an OS on it. if it does, make sure to boot from your SSD

 

It can be tricky, (disclaimer here: do this at your own risk!!) But maybe wait until the OS has booted, and then plug in the SATA data connector into the motherboard/HDD?

Im most likely sure that it has an os on it, so i chose my ssd to boot from but then windows starts to do a repair for some reason and won't boot. 

[RadiatingLight]

1 minute ago, pi1992 said:

Im most likely sure that it has an os on it, so i chose my ssd to boot from but then windows starts to do a repair for some reason and won't boot. 

what happens if you let windows finish repairing?

[pi1992]

Just now, RadiatingLight said:

what happens if you let windows finish repairing?

I didn't let it finish because i thought it was going to do something to my boot drive

 

[abhansh21]

let the window finish repairing 

or if your motherboard supports got swap then just plug in your boot drive and then plug all the other drives when you have booted up

[pi1992]

20 minutes ago, abhansh21 said:

let the window finish repairing 

or if your motherboard supports got swap then just plug in your boot drive and then plug all the other drives when you have booted up

i tried the hot swap and now when i go to look at the partitions in windows it just says connecting to virtual disk service

[abhansh21]

On 12/5/2016 at 0:38 PM, pi1992 said:

i tried the hot swap and now when i go to look at the partitions in windows it just says connecting to virtual disk service

try formatting that 500gb hard drive on some other pc or make a bootable usb of any os and format that 500 gb hard drive and then try the hot swap method