Another question... Did you partition the drive? It most like has no partition(s) on it. Also, in disk manager did it show up as a Volume ? (but no drive letter)? Generally with new drives you need to partition and format them to be able to use them otherwise they will show up as plain volumes but will have no drive assigned to them
On Jun 12, 9:19 am, eos <[email protected]> wrote: > I have just bought a new 1tb Western digital sata hard drive > [WD10EADS] to use as my secondary drive. It was bought to replace a > 320gb sata seagate drive that i was using but is now too small. The > problem i am having is that the new drive is being detected at bios > start-up [ie the drive number is showing] but the system will not boot > up. The system is booting from a different drive however. I have tried > changing the jumper settings and the only time the system will boot up > is when the jumper is on the 2,3 setting but the drive number does not > come up during startup and is not accessible in 'disk manage'. My > motherboard is a pata system but i have a sata to ide card which > worked perfectly with the segate drive. I don't understand how one > works and not the other. The jumper settings cannot be copied either > as the segate drive uses 4pins whereas the WD one uses 8. I'm running > XP home as my system. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Computer Tech Support" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/computer-tech-support?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
