Installing SATA hard drive alongside IDE drive
August 28th, 2013
It was recognised by windows 7 as soon as I fitted it in and windows said it was installing the drivers for it. The device shows up in device manager, and when I’m on computer, it detects the drive but it is in the ‘other drives’ section, has a question mark in place of the drive letter (on the picture of the drive) and if I try to click on it, it says location is not available!
I have a 320gb IDE seagate and want that to be in primary for the time being so that I can install windows 7 onto the sata drive through my current installation (rather than from boot because my mbr is messed so wont allow windows 7 to install from cd). I also have a gigabyte GA-P35-DS4 mobo, which I know is sata enabled etc.
Thanks in advance and any help would be thoroughly appreciated!
Run > diskmgmt.msc
Delete the current partition on the 2TB drive and make a new one. See if that works.
-paroxysM^ replied: Run > diskmgmt.msc
Delete the current partition on the 2TB drive and make a new one. See if that works.
thanks for the prompt response, however it doesnt detect the sata drive in the program..only detects the partitions on my IDE drive..
Well older motherboards don’t work with 2TB drives. What motherboard do you have?
Edit: Will bbl.
its the gigabyte pa-ds4..its sata enabled I know that for sure
sorry its the gigabyte GA-P35-DS4*
A 2TB drive should work fine on that motherboard. If you’ve just bought the drive send it back for a replacement.
Note: your motherboard will only work on drives up to 2TB. It will not accept anything above that such as 3TB or etc. Just thought I’d put that in here.
cheers for the extra info. is there anything else you can suggest? I just opened the drive and dont think there is anything wrong with it..i can hear it spinning etc. also, the IDE drive doesnt have any jumpers on it (i.e. to put it into primary etc), will this affect anything?
do the disk have a letter like c:,E:..?
yeah its drive F (I have 4 partitions on my IDE drive and a few optical drives)..
try to find the drive in device manager and update driver automaticly from the net. i think its about the maibord driver. if this doesnt work install partition magic and format the drive
in ntfs, but as logical!!not primary or activ drive!!
the IDE drive doesnt have any jumpers on it
that should not be a problem
when you connect the 2tb is it ID’d correctly in the BIOS or on the boot screen (hit “tab” to clear the gigabyte logo and “pause” to stop the screen scroll) ?
partition magic
stay away from this app it’s old and buggy
format the drive in ntfs, but as logical!!not primary or activ drive!!
a logical partition can’t be set to active if you ever want to install an OS
so make at least the 1st partition “Primary”
and I always use Primary partitions, never logical
edwoodweb replied: the IDE drive doesnt have any jumpers on it
that should not be a problem
when you connect the 2tb is it ID'd correctly in the BIOS or on the boot screen (hit "tab" to clear the gigabyte logo and "pause" to stop the screen scroll) ?
partition magic
stay away from this app it's old and buggy
format the drive in ntfs, but as logical!!not primary or activ drive!!
a logical partition can't be set to active if you ever want to install an OS
so make at least the 1st partition "Primary"
and I always use Primary partitions, never logical
thanks for the help guys! erm yeah ive just had a look in the bios, and it recognises the drive.
Ive tried updating drivers through device manager and still nothing.
Also, what do you mean by ID the drive in Bios?
first of all: i use partition magic for years with no problems at all. u just have to know how to use it properly.
second of all: if u have one one partition windows and format the other partition as active there is a great chance that u cant
startup ur windows again because boot.ini file is missing, and then u must install windows on this part. to later start the older windows again.
lumi525 replied: first of all: i use partition magic for years with no problems at all. u just have to know how to use it properly.
second of all: if u have one one partition windows and format the other partition as active there is a great chance that u cant
startup ur windows again because boot.ini file is missing, and then u must install windows on this part. to later start the older windows again.
Just did that format thing and it worked you absolute ledge! HOWEVER, my 2tb hard drive is only showing up as 931gb on the system now.
Any solutions guys? (thanks so much!)
did u install partition magic?
i have to ask just so i know if u see the unpartitional space.if yes than u have to format it too.
lumi525 replied:
did u install partition magic?
i have to ask just so i know if u see the unpartitional space.if yes than u have to format it too.
perfect! partition magic sorted it out! thank you u genius!!!!
i use partition magic for years with no problems at all.
as did I, for years, and swore by it
but it was discontinued
As of December 8, 2009, the Symantec website stated that they no longer offer Partition Magic.
Since Symantec purchased the application in 2003, there has not been a new release
and never updated to run on vista/7
glad it sorted your problem ajgaj
but there have been many posts in this helpdesk alone that Partition Magic was the culprit in disk/partition corruption
you are better off using Acronis or Paragon partition mgr
the is a partition app using “Partition Magic Windows 7” nomenclature to rip off the original “partition magic” but it’s actually “Aomei Partition Assistant Pro Edition”
931GB is windows for 1TB.
So your windows is only recognising 1TB.
Can you update the drivers for it?
you didn’t install a fresh install of windows on the new HDD, did you?
Voryzen replied: 931GB is windows for 1TB.
Incorrect,Windows has nothing to do with it,It’s the actual capacity of a 1TB HDD.
By file size standards,1024MB = 1GB,However HDD manufacturers decided to make
their own standard (probably for cutting costs) and by this standard 1000MB = 1GB which is why
the capacity is always smaller than advertised.
Voryzen replied: Can you update the drivers for it?
There are no special drivers for HDDs,Btw,This is already solved^
However HDD manufacturers decided to make their own standard (probably for cutting costs)
it’s the HDD mfg who are correct according to the international standards boards
It was M$ who propagated 1024MB = 1GB, tho others do use it
Although most manufacturers of hard disk drives and flash-memory disk devices define 1 gigabyte as 1000000000 bytes, software like Microsoft Windows reports size in gigabytes by dividing the total capacity in bytes by 1073741824, while still reporting the result with the symbol "GB". This practice is a cause of confusion, as a hard disk with a manufacturer-rated capacity of 400 gigabytes might be reported by the operating system as only "372 GB", for instance.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte
actually 1024MB = 1GiB (gibibyte)
The gibibyte is a standards-based binary multiple (prefix gibi, symbol Gi) of the byte, a unit of digital information storage. The gibibyte unit symbol is GiB.[1]
1 gibibyte = 230 bytes = 1073741824bytes = 1024 mebibytes
The gibibyte is closely related to the gigabyte, which is defined as 109 bytes = 1000000000bytes, but has been used as a synonym for gibibyte in some contexts (see binary prefix.) In terms of standard gigabytes, 1GiB = 1.074GB.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gibibyte