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From: Steve T on 5 Nov 2009 19:07 Just installed a Western Digital SATA HD into my XP-SP3 HE PC. I want to clone the original and then just replace it with the new unit. Original HD is making noises. My PC does not see the new HD. I have installed a new SATA cable and connected the original power cable also. The power cable is one of those that connects both HD's in series. I went to Disk Management and tried Rescan, nothing. Went to Device Manager and searched for new hardware with no luck either. There is no shunt on the HD. No window shows up requesting initialization. PC booted up as normal. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Steve T.
From: Steve T on 5 Nov 2009 19:32 Update. I went into setup and turned on the drive function that allows the HD to be recognized. New hardware found notice popped up after boot and I can see the HD in Device Manager and Disk Management. It is initialized but I cannot see it the Explorer View. All I have is the original C:\ and D:\, which is my DVD. What am I missing? I need to format the new disk and start the cloning procedure. Thank you, Steve T. "Steve T" <stumas(a)NOBINGOcharter.net> wrote in message news:ehtQnUnXKHA.4892(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Just installed a Western Digital SATA HD into my XP-SP3 HE PC. I want to > clone the original and then just replace it with the new unit. Original HD > is making noises. My PC does not see the new HD. I have installed a new > SATA cable and connected the original power cable also. The power cable is > one of those that connects both HD's in series. I went to Disk Management > and tried Rescan, nothing. Went to Device Manager and searched for new > hardware with no luck either. There is no shunt on the HD. No window shows > up requesting initialization. PC booted up as normal. Any help would be > appreciated. Thank you, Steve T. >
From: Steve T on 5 Nov 2009 20:50 Update again. In Disk Management, the new drive shows up as 465 Gb Unallocated. Not sure if this means I have to partition the drive or what. If I have to partition it, which one do I choose, New or Extended? I'm not interested in having it partitioned into several smaller drives. I just want it ready to be formatted and then cloned. Thanks, Steve T. "Steve T" <stumas(a)NOBINGOcharter.net> wrote in message news:%23b6ZfinXKHA.3676(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > Update. I went into setup and turned on the drive function that allows the > HD to be recognized. New hardware found notice popped up after boot and I > can see the HD in Device Manager and Disk Management. It is initialized > but I cannot see it the Explorer View. All I have is the original C:\ and > D:\, which is my DVD. What am I missing? I need to format the new disk and > start the cloning procedure. Thank you, Steve T. > "Steve T" <stumas(a)NOBINGOcharter.net> wrote in message > news:ehtQnUnXKHA.4892(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >> Just installed a Western Digital SATA HD into my XP-SP3 HE PC. I want to >> clone the original and then just replace it with the new unit. Original >> HD is making noises. My PC does not see the new HD. I have installed a >> new SATA cable and connected the original power cable also. The power >> cable is one of those that connects both HD's in series. I went to Disk >> Management and tried Rescan, nothing. Went to Device Manager and searched >> for new hardware with no luck either. There is no shunt on the HD. No >> window shows up requesting initialization. PC booted up as normal. Any >> help would be appreciated. Thank you, Steve T. >> > >
From: Michael W. Ryder on 5 Nov 2009 21:31 Steve T wrote: > Update again. In Disk Management, the new drive shows up as 465 Gb > Unallocated. Not sure if this means I have to partition the drive or what. > If I have to partition it, which one do I choose, New or Extended? I'm not > interested in having it partitioned into several smaller drives. I just want > it ready to be formatted and then cloned. Thanks, Steve T. Shouldn't your clone software handle the partitioning and formatting for you? When I used Ghost to clone my boot drive I just started the software and pointed it at the proper drives and let it run. > "Steve T" <stumas(a)NOBINGOcharter.net> wrote in message > news:%23b6ZfinXKHA.3676(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >> Update. I went into setup and turned on the drive function that allows the >> HD to be recognized. New hardware found notice popped up after boot and I >> can see the HD in Device Manager and Disk Management. It is initialized >> but I cannot see it the Explorer View. All I have is the original C:\ and >> D:\, which is my DVD. What am I missing? I need to format the new disk and >> start the cloning procedure. Thank you, Steve T. >> "Steve T" <stumas(a)NOBINGOcharter.net> wrote in message >> news:ehtQnUnXKHA.4892(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>> Just installed a Western Digital SATA HD into my XP-SP3 HE PC. I want to >>> clone the original and then just replace it with the new unit. Original >>> HD is making noises. My PC does not see the new HD. I have installed a >>> new SATA cable and connected the original power cable also. The power >>> cable is one of those that connects both HD's in series. I went to Disk >>> Management and tried Rescan, nothing. Went to Device Manager and searched >>> for new hardware with no luck either. There is no shunt on the HD. No >>> window shows up requesting initialization. PC booted up as normal. Any >>> help would be appreciated. Thank you, Steve T. >>> >> > >
From: Steve T on 5 Nov 2009 22:04 The software that Western Digital provides is by Acronis. The original HD has a partition of about 10Gb that contains the Restore files for the PC and I want to keep that onto the new HD. Not sure if the software will do that or if I have to prepare it myself. And since I cannot see the new HD in Explorer, I don't have a drive letter assigned to it. That makes it another confusing issue for me. Thanks for the input, Steve T. "Michael W. Ryder" <_mwryder55(a)gmail.com> wrote in message news:NTLIm.2951$ky1.2350(a)newsfe14.iad... > Steve T wrote: >> Update again. In Disk Management, the new drive shows up as 465 Gb >> Unallocated. Not sure if this means I have to partition the drive or >> what. If I have to partition it, which one do I choose, New or Extended? >> I'm not interested in having it partitioned into several smaller drives. >> I just want it ready to be formatted and then cloned. Thanks, Steve T. > > Shouldn't your clone software handle the partitioning and formatting for > you? When I used Ghost to clone my boot drive I just started the software > and pointed it at the proper drives and let it run. > > >> "Steve T" <stumas(a)NOBINGOcharter.net> wrote in message >> news:%23b6ZfinXKHA.3676(a)TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... >>> Update. I went into setup and turned on the drive function that allows >>> the HD to be recognized. New hardware found notice popped up after boot >>> and I can see the HD in Device Manager and Disk Management. It is >>> initialized but I cannot see it the Explorer View. All I have is the >>> original C:\ and D:\, which is my DVD. What am I missing? I need to >>> format the new disk and start the cloning procedure. Thank you, Steve T. >>> "Steve T" <stumas(a)NOBINGOcharter.net> wrote in message >>> news:ehtQnUnXKHA.4892(a)TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... >>>> Just installed a Western Digital SATA HD into my XP-SP3 HE PC. I want >>>> to clone the original and then just replace it with the new unit. >>>> Original HD is making noises. My PC does not see the new HD. I have >>>> installed a new SATA cable and connected the original power cable also. >>>> The power cable is one of those that connects both HD's in series. I >>>> went to Disk Management and tried Rescan, nothing. Went to Device >>>> Manager and searched for new hardware with no luck either. There is no >>>> shunt on the HD. No window shows up requesting initialization. PC >>>> booted up as normal. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you, Steve T. >>>> >>> >>
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