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Please Help - second HDD unknown; unreadable; unallocated
I just finished assembling my computer. It’s an ambitious project with
Gigabyte GA-P-35- DS4 Motherboard and two HDD a) Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 (for OS + programms) b) Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD7500AAKS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (for all other things) Vista 64-bit installation was easy, problems started right after. Under Computer only one Hard Disk Drive is shown – Raptor. BIOS shows both: IDE Channel 0 Master – WDC WD1500 ... IDE Channel 1 Master – WDC WD7500 ... Start/Control panel/System and Maintenance/Administrative Tools – Create and Format Disk Partition under Disk Management shows unpromising picture Second HD (WD Caviar) drive is unknown – unreadable - unallocated. Left Click on it shows Properties (General / This device is working properly) & Help. Right Click on it shows window, where first three (New Simple Volume; New Spanned Volume; New Striped Volume) command lines are GRAY and not working (second two: Properties & Help are OK) I tried anything what came to mind like false new installation – unplug disk, reboot / plug in, reboot – same result. Even upgraded BIOS (F11) from Gigabyte – disk still unreadable. Any help will be greatly appreciated |
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Please Help - second HDD unknown; unreadable; unallocated
If it is new, or blank, first it has to be initialized (partitioned) and
then formatted, just like in the old days. You do this with control panel/computer management/disk management Both disks should be shown, but of course the new one will not be usable. click on it (or right click, I can't remember) until you get a menu that says initialize it. Once it is initialized, you will be able to format it. Then it will show up in Computer. "Bux63" wrote in message ... I just finished assembling my computer. It’s an ambitious project with Gigabyte GA-P-35- DS4 Motherboard and two HDD a) Western Digital Raptor WD1500ADFD 150GB 10,000 RPM Serial ATA150 (for OS + programms) b) Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD7500AAKS 750GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (for all other things) Vista 64-bit installation was easy, problems started right after. Under Computer only one Hard Disk Drive is shown – Raptor. BIOS shows both: IDE Channel 0 Master – WDC WD1500 ... IDE Channel 1 Master – WDC WD7500 ... Start/Control panel/System and Maintenance/Administrative Tools – Create and Format Disk Partition under Disk Management shows unpromising picture Second HD (WD Caviar) drive is unknown – unreadable - unallocated. Left Click on it shows Properties (General / This device is working properly) & Help. Right Click on it shows window, where first three (New Simple Volume; New Spanned Volume; New Striped Volume) command lines are GRAY and not working (second two: Properties & Help are OK) I tried anything what came to mind like false new installation – unplug disk, reboot / plug in, reboot – same result. Even upgraded BIOS (F11) from Gigabyte – disk still unreadable. Any help will be greatly appreciated |
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Please Help - second HDD unknown; unreadable; unallocated
Thank you for answer. I really appreciate your attempt to help!
But, my problem is – there ISN’T Menu which allows me to initialize that disk. Under “Disk Management” with right click I can get Menu, where first three (New Simple Volume; New Spanned Volume; New Striped Volume) command lines are GRAY and not working. And that is my Dead End – I don’t know how to pass it. |