Booting to a SATA drive... OR broken drive!

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harrytewkesbury

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Hey there. I have bought a (second hand) hard drive: a SATA Hitachi 7K160 drive and once connected to the motherboard via the SATA cable, on start tp there are some soft but repetitive noises in the drive which freezes the system for about two minutes then the machine continues and cannot detect the drive. Have i missed something or is this definitely a busted drive?
 
Navigate to start > control panel > administrative tools then compter management then click on disc management. If you see your new hard drive then right click on it and click format.

If you dont see your new hard drive, then that means your OS can't see it yet. Make sure the cable are pluged in ok and try again. Let us know what the results are so we can provide more help.

Good Luck!
 
My bad: i meant that this is my only drive and my potential boot disk. I'm moving this to another board actually, cos this is the wrong one. Thanks though!
 
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