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From: ten13 on 23 Apr 2008 19:35

Hello all,
I have a removable SATA Seriel hard drive as my second hard drive. It
has been working just fine showing up as drive E. I have the Western
Digital 250 Gig WD Caviar RE16. I wanted to increase the storage so I
got the Western Digital 750 Gig WD Caviar RE16. I slid the old hard
drive out of the removable slot and slid the new one in but the computer
does not see it. It is not in the disk manager. Drive E does not show up
nor anything about the new 750 G drive. When I slide the old 250 G drive
back in, it shows up and runs just fine. Any ideas on what the problem
might be?


From: Arno Wagner on 24 Apr 2008 02:44
Previously ten13 <ten13.38coqw(a)no.email.invalid> wrote:

> Hello all,
> I have a removable SATA Seriel hard drive as my second hard drive. It
> has been working just fine showing up as drive E. I have the Western
> Digital 250 Gig WD Caviar RE16. I wanted to increase the storage so I
> got the Western Digital 750 Gig WD Caviar RE16. I slid the old hard
> drive out of the removable slot and slid the new one in but the computer
> does not see it. It is not in the disk manager. Drive E does not show up
> nor anything about the new 750 G drive. When I slide the old 250 G drive
> back in, it shows up and runs just fine. Any ideas on what the problem
> might be?

Have you partitioned and formatted the new drive? Bare drives
are delivered empty, i.e. without any structure on them.

You can check wehter the drive itself shos up in the system
component view.

Arno
From: sam on 24 Apr 2008 03:04
Arno Wagner <me(a)privacy.net> wrote:
> ten13 <ten13.38coqw(a)no.email.invalid> wrote:

>> I have a removable SATA Seriel hard drive as my second hard drive.
>> It has been working just fine showing up as drive E. I have the Western
>> Digital 250 Gig WD Caviar RE16. I wanted to increase the storage so I
>> got the Western Digital 750 Gig WD Caviar RE16. I slid the old hard
>> drive out of the removable slot and slid the new one in but the
>> computer does not see it. It is not in the disk manager. Drive E
>> does not show up nor anything about the new 750 G drive. When I
>> slide the old 250 G drive back in, it shows up and runs just fine.
>> Any ideas on what the problem might be?

> Have you partitioned and formatted the new drive?
> Bare drives are delivered empty, i.e. without any structure on them.

Those are still seen in disk management, in fact thats where you partition and format them.

> You can check wehter the drive itself shos up in the system component view.

Thats where he's looking.


From: Anna on 24 Apr 2008 10:50

"ten13" <ten13.38coqw(a)no.email.invalid> wrote in message
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>
> Hello all,
> I have a removable SATA Seriel hard drive as my second hard drive. It
> has been working just fine showing up as drive E. I have the Western
> Digital 250 Gig WD Caviar RE16. I wanted to increase the storage so I
> got the Western Digital 750 Gig WD Caviar RE16. I slid the old hard
> drive out of the removable slot and slid the new one in but the computer
> does not see it. It is not in the disk manager. Drive E does not show up
> nor anything about the new 750 G drive. When I slide the old 250 G drive
> back in, it shows up and runs just fine. Any ideas on what the problem
> might be?


ten13:
Although you didn't say, did you install the 750 GB HDD in a new tray/caddy
or did you use the same tray/caddy as the 250 GB HDD? You're sure you've
properly connected the 750 GB SATA HDD in the tray/caddy?

If still no go, uninstall the disk from the tray/caddy and temporarily
install it as an internal HDD in your system. Does that work, i.e., can it
then be seen in Disk Management (that's what you meant when you wrote "disk
manager", right?) so that you can partition/format the disk?

Is the 750 GB HDD detected in the BIOS?

It might also be wise to download the HDD diagnostic utility available from
the WD site to check out the disk.
Anna



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