I put the 500gb Hard Drive in the optical drive caddy. I installed Intel Rapid Storage Technology and it lists the 500gb under "Storage System View" but it's not showing under "Hard Disk Drives" in Computer. Anyone know how to fix this?
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either the hard drive is kaput, or you haven't put a jumper on the drive to make it run in SATA 1 mode, mine would not show up in windows \ bios and if it did it would drop off the face of the earth a second later, that is, until i jumpered it.
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Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Storage > Disc Management.
see if the HDD is a simple volume in there. if not you might need to format it and set it up as a simple volume. -
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The optical drive is limited to SATA 1 so the suggestion above is pretty accurate, you may be missing that. Also it might need to be formatted as some guy says.
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I actually fixed the issue 5 minutes after I posted the topic haha Forgot to partition the space. Thanks for the help though.
Second hard drive problem
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