Trying at add second HD to dell e520

well i am trying to add a WD 320gb HD to the computer and am having issues. The computer right now has a 80gb on sata0 and I am adding the 320 to sata1 and moved the cd/dvd to sata4 port. All are turned on in the bios but it is not seeing it. if i look under sata1 in the bios it shows a HD but show size as un determined and when i boot into XP it does not see it at all. I have search all the internet for all i can find out and I am not having any luck. It could be my key words i am searching with but no luck so far. I have upgraded the bios to the latest 2.4.0.

any help would be great appreciated.

i downloaded something from WD site to format it but it never let me do it. what would you suggest to use to format it?

will if everything is enabled and you can see the new drive in bios, go into disk management, it shows all drives reguardless, you can format it right in there

right click on "computer" click "manage" dubble click "storage"dubble click "disk management"

from there, select your drive and format, let me know if that works

it does not show up under the disk manager...see this hd was used in a dvr. i pulled it out and am trying to figure out how to use it for a windows computer. from what i have read the dvr was linux based but i was thinking if i could just format it and recreate the partition it would work.

when at the desktop i right clicked on my computer and doing to the disk management there

please confirm that is looks like this

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ok then its a hardware issue, worst case its no good for pc install, tripple check any jumpers on the drive and make sure you are enabling the right sata, thats the best i can help with, i have never installed a drive that was intended only for use with dvr

like i said before, the newer satas are sataII and it will not run on that pc, there is a jumper setting for that to make it run the old sata, might be running slave when it needs to be master or vice versa

it is a WD cavier SE HD...what would you use to attempt to format it and see if this helps my cause

WD3200JS WD Caviar SE

http://wdc.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/wd [...] ed=#jumper

found that on WD site. what am i looking for??

yes, it is pins 5 and 6, your pc will use the hdd if it is not jumped back to old sata

very interesting stuff...do you think after a reboot it will show up in windows?

jump the drive, reboot and get back to me

jumper didnt get it to show up in windows...

man it should not be this tough to install a second HD...

thats right, it shouldent be, but sometimes it is, thats why computer techs charge soo much money, lol

something i notice is on boot it says hd controlled by raid but doesnt have a label name. where as the 80 gb has a name

thats right, needs to be formatted, once you format, it will assign a lable to it

umm, not sure, the only way i do it is threw disk managment,

you could try this trick, go to as if you were going to reinstall windows, (incert disk, power off, power on, press key to boot from cd)

let it copy files, once it gets to the point whare it asks to choose a drive, select the new drive and then deliete any partitons from that drive and create new partition (whole drive) it will ask to format, let me know if that works

after you format (NFTS) and it starts installing windows, eject the dick, force the pc to shut down by holding the power putton down

but be warned, it is tricky, DO NOT TOUCH DRIVE C:!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

or any drive smaller the 1gb

all that will be plugged into the MB will be the 320 on sata1 and the cd/dvd drive on sata4

put the new drive in sata0

there will be, i had trubble installing xp when i first got my e520 because the disk i was using didnt have the raid driver so i installed vista witch did, but then found out that i didnt need them cause you can go into bios and change the setting of the drive to compatible, do that first before setup, it will make things easier