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Electric_Wizard wrote:
I can't see it in my computer so I'm unable to format and use it.

Can you see it in disk management? It has to be partitioned before it will appear in My Computer.

start - run - diskmgmt.msc

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Cheers.

It's now working fine, except that the computer still won't boot if its plugged in before windows loads. Weird, but workable.

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That sounds like the boot order. Simplest fix might be to swap it with the drive you actually do want to boot from, if you can't find it in the BIOS.

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That sounds like the boot order. Simplest fix might be to swap it with the drive you actually do want to boot from, if you can't find it in the BIOS.


I'm not sure I follow.

The drive that windows boots from is the 60GB IDE drive. The 2 SATAs are just additional storage. The computer boots fine if the new drive gets plugged in after the Silicon Image SATA Raid BIOS screen has gone. If it is plugged in before this point then it won't get any further than the SATA BIOS screen. First boot device in the main BIOS is set to the IDE HDD.

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Sorry, didn't realise the boot drive was IDE. I should have read the first page again :oops:

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This is most puzzling.

Hmmm.......


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The only thing I can even find close to your problem is this guy's post, and he replaced the HDD :oops: :

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/268 ... hard-drive

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