So I built my PC around 6 months ago. The hard drive I installed was a 2TB Western Digital HDD. A few months after building my PC I purchased a 120GB Solid State Drive on which to install my operating system and a few of my most used games and programs, while using the HDD to store all my music/movies/pictures etc. This worked fine for several months.
Then the other day, I bought a new version of Windows 7 (my old was a nock off). I did this because I'd been getting blue screen errors, for which I'd found out my OS was to blame. I booted from the Windows 7 Disk, formatted both my hard drives, and deleted all partitions so I was just left with the 2 hard drives on the install options.
I installed the OS onto my solid state. Then, when I'd finished the install and went to transfer all my files back over from the external drive I'd used to store them while updating my OS. But when I went on to my computer, my 2TB HDD wasn't on there.
So I turned off my PC and then went into the BIOS, where I saw on the boot menu that my HDD was being detected.
I then went back onto Windows and looked in device manager, where I could also see my HDD. When I clicked on it I got the message "This device is working properly."
Also, all of the manufacturers details are not being displayed on there. Is this to do with the fact I've formatted the drive? Or is it to do with my new OS? Or is it something else? :S
Then the other day, I bought a new version of Windows 7 (my old was a nock off). I did this because I'd been getting blue screen errors, for which I'd found out my OS was to blame. I booted from the Windows 7 Disk, formatted both my hard drives, and deleted all partitions so I was just left with the 2 hard drives on the install options.
I installed the OS onto my solid state. Then, when I'd finished the install and went to transfer all my files back over from the external drive I'd used to store them while updating my OS. But when I went on to my computer, my 2TB HDD wasn't on there.
So I turned off my PC and then went into the BIOS, where I saw on the boot menu that my HDD was being detected.
I then went back onto Windows and looked in device manager, where I could also see my HDD. When I clicked on it I got the message "This device is working properly."
Also, all of the manufacturers details are not being displayed on there. Is this to do with the fact I've formatted the drive? Or is it to do with my new OS? Or is it something else? :S