HD installation problem 1

[Sisyphusx]

I just bought a Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD4000AA SATA drive to put in my obsolete Dell Pentium 2.4. My son had given me a Sil 3112 PCI to SATA card and a 120 GB Seagate SATA 7200.7 drive which a few weeks ago I installed with no problem and upon the next boot was recognized as F drive with the OS still running from my 120GB IDE drive. I assumed I could just take out the 120 GB SATA drive and put in the new 400 GB drive. The computer apparently wants to boot off of the WD drive, but of course it can't. when I go through the setup menu and boot from my IDE drive, it doesn't recognize the WD 400 as F or anything. I can see both drives in Device Manager.

Where have I gone wrong?

 

[kestrel1]

You may need to create a partition on the new drive, so that you can format it. I would use the Western Digital Lifeguagrd tools:

http://support.wdc.com/download/?cxml=n&pid=2&swid=1

This should sort it out for you.

 

[wahnula]

I think you should also be able to do that in Sil BIOS, press the key combo it asks for during POST to get into Sil BIOS. Both drives should be present, see if it gives you the option to format the new drive, then once in Windows, Start=>Run=>diskmgmt.msc and initialize the drive. Should work now.

Tony

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[acewarlock]

Did you put the OS on the New HD?




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[Sisyphusx]

Thanks to all. There is no OS on the WD 400GB SATA or the 120 GB Seagate SATA. OS is on the old IDE drive only. I will try the suggestions over the next day or two as we have company over the holidays.

Thanks again.

 

[WusteHase]

wahnula (TechnicalUser)
26 May 08 9:38
....Start=>Run=>diskmgmt.msc and initialize the drive. Should work now.

Tony

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Worked beautifully! I was having the same issue. Thanks a ton!