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Post Date: 2009-07-03
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    Posted: 03 Jul 2009 at 11:04am
im adding a 2nd hard drive for storage. when i hook the sata cable and the power cable up and turn on the computer it enter the boot device and hit a key. i checked the bios and it shows the hd. im lost 
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in bios can you choose between hdd1 and hdd2 for first and 2nd boot device?
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I'm not clear about the problem, are you saying now that you added the new HDD you pc is not booting?

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ok i gto it to boot i had to change the boot order of the hdd's. now its not showing up in "computer" under hard drives. it is showing up in the device manager. 
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ok now you need to format and partition the second HDD and then it will showup under "My computer"

right click my computer>manage>disk managment>here from the right pan choose the drive and format and partition it

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Originally posted by DST4ME

ok now you need to format and partition the second HDD and then it will showup under "My computer"

right click my computer>manage>disk managment>here from the right pan choose the drive and format and partition it




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Our pleasure boss

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