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larebz · 11-08-2007, 02:56 PM

OK so i just bought this new hard drive here: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124228 which i originally bought to put in a new media enclosure i also recently bought however i didn't realise that the media enclosure had an IDE connection and the HDD is SATA so instead i decided to put the new hard drive directly into my motherboard.

So i installed it in however i only had 1 of the leads (don't know what it's called sorry) which came from the motherboard into my original hard drive and then into my new hard drive. The other lead (the SATA cable i think) was missing so i had to buy one, i bought this one here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWN:IT&ih=006

So now i've connected that lead into the drive now but now after booting up my computer i've got no message notifying me of finding new hardware and then when trying to search for new hardware it comes up with nothing, does anyone know what the problem could be please??

11-08-2007, 02:56 PM	#1 (permalink)
larebz Registered User Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Leicester, UK Posts: 127 OS: Windows Vista Home Premium SP1 My System	[SOLVED] Computer Not Recognizing New HDD OK so i just bought this new hard drive here: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124228 which i originally bought to put in a new media enclosure i also recently bought however i didn't realise that the media enclosure had an IDE connection and the HDD is SATA so instead i decided to put the new hard drive directly into my motherboard. So i installed it in however i only had 1 of the leads (don't know what it's called sorry) which came from the motherboard into my original hard drive and then into my new hard drive. The other lead (the SATA cable i think) was missing so i had to buy one, i bought this one here: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.d...MEWN:IT&ih=006 So now i've connected that lead into the drive now but now after booting up my computer i've got no message notifying me of finding new hardware and then when trying to search for new hardware it comes up with nothing, does anyone know what the problem could be please??