Gatorade Frost

I'm having some hard drive troubles right now. I just built a computer with two 250 GB hard drives in it, and when Windows was installed only one hard drive was seen and partitioned/formatted. Is there anything I can do to get the other one formatted? I'd really like to have that other hard drive tonight if possible.

They're both SATA hard drives, btw.

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JStrider

are they setup in a raid array? see if your motherboard supports the raid... it might have been set up by default...
a mirroring array would make it seem like you only see one drive, but data is being backed up on one...
a striping array would make it look like one drive with the size of the 2 put together...

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bendsley

You might also need to go into the disk management and have Windows initialize the drive.

Try this:
rt. click on My Computer
go to Manage
Click on Disk Management
It should see the second drive there, right click on it and click Initialize
Format the drive that you don't have Windows installed on. Give it a drive letter.

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Gatorade Frost

That did it. Thansk a lot.

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I got in a fight one time with a really big guy, and he said, "I'm going to mop the floor with your face." I said, "You'll be sorry." He said, "Oh, yeah? Why?" I said, "Well, you won't be able to get into the corners very well."
Emo Philips

cyrnel

Maybe too late but use Basic, not Dynamic. Dynamic is the Windows equivalent of that big tempting red button on Elmer Fudd's kitchen wall. It can, and often does, leave your filesystem stuck in the clouds.

If you're too young for the reference, just stick with Basic.

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seven7

be sure to have a decent power supply, I installed another drive and my computer kept rebooting til I updated my power supply