Hard Drive help

[paully p]

Hi

I have a Seagate Barracuda 7200, 500 gb hard drive that was in my old Sky box. I removed it and planned to put it in my pc as an additional drive but its not recognised. The drive is powering up and i can hear/feel it spinning. I tried another drive using the same connections and its ok. Is it dead or is there anything else i can do?

Thanks in advance

 

[RetiredChief]

If it shows up in bios but not windows then It probably has a Partition that you will need to delete first.
You can try Diskpart(goole it), or a 3rd party disk partitioning software.

If it will NOT show up in bios, probably will not be able to fix.

 

[larkspur]

but its not recognised.

Elaborate. When you enter the BIOS on startup, can the BIOS see it?

What about Windows?
Right-click 'My Computer' -> Click "Manage" - >Click "Disk Management"

The Disks connected to your computer will be listed and any partitions they have will also be shown. Does the disk show up there?

 

[paully p]

Hi

The drive is not showing in bios or hardware

 

[smorizio]

if there ide drives check the jumper on the drive..you can only have one master and one slave per ide cable.

 

[RetiredChief]

If ther old HDD is IDE and new system is SATA and MB has an IDE cinnector, may need to enable the IDE in Bios.