Hey guys,
I just bought and physically installed a new Western Digital, Cavier Green HDD (1TB). I booted up into Windows and didn't see the drive among the listed HDDs. Thinking something might be wrong I rebooted into the BIOS in order to see whether or not it was physically seen by the system. It was and so I booted back into Windows, but no luck. I know now that the HDD is installed, on and running, seen by the BIOS with nothing to indicate it's disabled. But Windows 7 doesn't see it, and no software came with it for me to install any sort of drivers with it (nor did I expect any with a HDD).
My knowledge with hardware is rather weak.
Is there anything else I should be doing so it will be seen by Windows? It is intended as a storage drive, as I have another, master HDD which is running Windows.
I just bought and physically installed a new Western Digital, Cavier Green HDD (1TB). I booted up into Windows and didn't see the drive among the listed HDDs. Thinking something might be wrong I rebooted into the BIOS in order to see whether or not it was physically seen by the system. It was and so I booted back into Windows, but no luck. I know now that the HDD is installed, on and running, seen by the BIOS with nothing to indicate it's disabled. But Windows 7 doesn't see it, and no software came with it for me to install any sort of drivers with it (nor did I expect any with a HDD).
My knowledge with hardware is rather weak.
Is there anything else I should be doing so it will be seen by Windows? It is intended as a storage drive, as I have another, master HDD which is running Windows.