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wanderer

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    New Hard Drive
    « on: February 14, 2008, 04:26:56 PM »
    I just installed a second Harddrive on my system.  I have a Dell XPS.  The first drive is a 250 Gig, WD-Sada drive.  I added a WD 200 gig IDE.  Here's my problem:  I set the IDE as a slave and did not touch the SADA drive.  When I turn on the system I get this message:  Press F1 to continue or F2 to go to setup.  When I go to setup I find the following.  SADA Raid is set to on.  HD 1 is off and when I turn HD2 to auto and exit nothing happens.  The system is no seeing the new drive.  Any Ideas?
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    Re: New Hard Drive
    « Reply #1 on: February 14, 2008, 05:14:41 PM »
    The IDE drive needs to be formatted before Windows will recognise it...use the utility CD that shipped with the drive...
    Also when you use the auto-detect function in the BIOS you need to hit Enter and let it find it ...
    Then you hit F10 to save changes and exit and then Y for Yes...the machine will re-boot automatically.
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      Re: New Hard Drive
      « Reply #2 on: February 14, 2008, 08:20:15 PM »
      I tried that but, the new drive does not show up on the list for formatting.  It does not appear on the list under devices either.  I tried what you said in setup but all it does is switch from auto to none.  For some reason its not showing up on my system.  Any ideas?
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      Re: New Hard Drive
      « Reply #3 on: February 14, 2008, 10:15:45 PM »
      I just noticed you have HDD 1 turned off in setup...turn it on and repeat the procedure.
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        Re: New Hard Drive
        « Reply #4 on: February 16, 2008, 06:20:19 PM »
        The first listing is SADA Raid.   If I turn that of I get SADA drive 1
        SADA drive 2 then Hard Drive master and Hdd Slave.

        The only settings choice i get is off or auto on all of them, never detect. 

        Any Ideas?

        BTW thank you for your help.
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        Re: New Hard Drive
        « Reply #5 on: February 17, 2008, 07:52:49 AM »
        DLoad and use the diagnostics from the drive manuf. site to prepare that drive for use...
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          Re: New Hard Drive
          « Reply #6 on: February 20, 2008, 08:14:23 AM »
          Thank You.  It worked. All installed.  Now I have to format the C: drive and reinstall windows.  Hope that will bring my usb ports back.  Thanks again. 
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          Re: New Hard Drive
          « Reply #7 on: February 20, 2008, 09:10:31 PM »
          Best of Luck and Welcome to CH...
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          Re: New Hard Drive
          « Reply #8 on: February 21, 2008, 08:14:05 AM »
          I'm having a similar problem.  My second drive fried last week.  I installed a new WD yesterday, but am having some challenges with initial booting on startup.  Can you tell me what the boot screen should look like in a typical setup? 
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          Re: New Hard Drive
          « Reply #9 on: February 21, 2008, 09:52:48 AM »
          zates,
          Welcome Also...it's best to start a New Topic so it recieves the proper attention...
          Did you boot to the Data Lifeguard CD from WD to prep the drive before trying ? ?
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