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[Juice1]

Yo I just plugged in my new 250gb to test it out, and it's not working. I'm pretty sure it's because I dunno how to work raid/slave drives. I had my regular 160gb drive in sata1, turned off comp, plugged 250gb into sata2, boot up, and the drive doesnt show in mycomputer list. Help please?

 

[D-Lew]

You shouldn't really have to fool with the jumpers on these. Have you read the manual? Your motherboard may only support a 1.5GBPS connection so in that case you will need to make sure your jumper is set right. That's all I can think of right now.

 

[Juice1]

Ah. Didn't come with a manual, got it from chrisdafrizz and it was opened but still new. Not sure how that works but who cares.

The HDD back thing has no jumpers on it either... But I can just pull one off an old Mobo... Do I set it to slave?

 

[D-Lew]

I thought SATA drives were all CS. I would leave it in CS, and check in the BIOS to make sure it's there. Also, check your mobo manual or specs to make sure it supports 3.0 GB/s and not just 1.5.

 

[Juice1]

Yeah actually I just read the top of the drive. Says that it's not required.

Went into bios. It says Seagate (the 160GB) and WDC (the 250GB is westerndigital cabiar) and a bunch of numbers.

I'll read the manual when I find it.

The mobo is a MSI K9N Diamond AM2

Edit: It say each port supports 300MB/s and theres 6 ports. That's all I can find.

 

[D-Lew]

Huh, that's weird. Did it come with an install disc or anything? Add new hardware wizard? Just thinking here.

 

[Juice1]

Add new hardware wiz popped up and said westerndigital hard disk, then said your new hardware is installed.

 

[D-Lew]

So you're good now or no?

 

[Juice1]

No... but when I turned on comp I got the hardware wiz

 

[Juice1]

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