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UPDATE: I may have just screwed myself. I found out how to delete the volume RAID and now my computer can't find my bootable hard drive... Only way I can think to fix it would be to make another volume but this one doesn't say I can keep my data which would suck as I don't think I have windows lying around.
I have never installed a hard drive before and can't find any answers online after all day of searching.
I recently bought this hard drive and I'm having trouble using it. First are specs:
Desktop
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Intel Core i7-3820
8 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
I already have a 1 TB hard drive in my computer that has windows and everything on it that my computer boots from. I am just trying to add another hard drive so I could have more space.
I installed the hard drive into the 2nd slot in my computer (I have 4 slots with all cables necessary there). I turned the computer on without going to BIOs first, checked disk management, but it wasn't showing up. I then reset the computer and opened BIOs up. The computer sees the hard drive, but I don't have any options to enable it or anything.
I restart the computer again because I saw a hard drive thing that said to press ctrl + i to access pop up while booting. I do this and it is a RAID configuration screen, but I didn't think I had to do anything with that so I just left it.
I looked at the hard drive and saw that there is a website to get some drivers for the hard drive so it will work correctly. I download it, but then it tells me you have to have one of their hard drives to install this and closes because Windows doesn't recognize the hard drive.
Then I saw that Intel Rapid Storage Technology was running so I look at that. It recognizes there's another hard drive so I figure maybe this can help me. So I make a volume (RAID 0) with my current hard drive and the new one to see if it changes anything, but now nothing is changed and I don't know how to delete the volume or get my disk to show up.
So my questions are:
1. How do I get Windows to recognize the hard drive?
2. Should I just put all my files onto my new hard drive and get rid of the old one once the new one works?
3. The RAID 0 volume I made says I have 1.8 TB of space and I'm not sure why and don't want to use RAID, so how do I get rid of it?
A few more things to answer any concerns:
The hard drive didn't come with any disc or software
I do not know what my motherboard is as it's from Alienware and I can't find it easily at all
I don't know if the hard drive is compatible but I'm pretty sure it is.
Sorry for such a long post, I hope someone can help me. At this point any suggestions are appreciated as I may have easily missed something simple. Thanks a bunch!!!
I have never installed a hard drive before and can't find any answers online after all day of searching.
I recently bought this hard drive and I'm having trouble using it. First are specs:
Desktop
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Intel Core i7-3820
8 GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
I already have a 1 TB hard drive in my computer that has windows and everything on it that my computer boots from. I am just trying to add another hard drive so I could have more space.
I installed the hard drive into the 2nd slot in my computer (I have 4 slots with all cables necessary there). I turned the computer on without going to BIOs first, checked disk management, but it wasn't showing up. I then reset the computer and opened BIOs up. The computer sees the hard drive, but I don't have any options to enable it or anything.
I restart the computer again because I saw a hard drive thing that said to press ctrl + i to access pop up while booting. I do this and it is a RAID configuration screen, but I didn't think I had to do anything with that so I just left it.
I looked at the hard drive and saw that there is a website to get some drivers for the hard drive so it will work correctly. I download it, but then it tells me you have to have one of their hard drives to install this and closes because Windows doesn't recognize the hard drive.
Then I saw that Intel Rapid Storage Technology was running so I look at that. It recognizes there's another hard drive so I figure maybe this can help me. So I make a volume (RAID 0) with my current hard drive and the new one to see if it changes anything, but now nothing is changed and I don't know how to delete the volume or get my disk to show up.
So my questions are:
1. How do I get Windows to recognize the hard drive?
2. Should I just put all my files onto my new hard drive and get rid of the old one once the new one works?
3. The RAID 0 volume I made says I have 1.8 TB of space and I'm not sure why and don't want to use RAID, so how do I get rid of it?
A few more things to answer any concerns:
The hard drive didn't come with any disc or software
I do not know what my motherboard is as it's from Alienware and I can't find it easily at all
I don't know if the hard drive is compatible but I'm pretty sure it is.
Sorry for such a long post, I hope someone can help me. At this point any suggestions are appreciated as I may have easily missed something simple. Thanks a bunch!!!
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