I just purchased a 34g Western digital raptor, I put it in an optical drive spot and booted my computer. Currently I am running two other hardrives, a C and a D drive. Now when I first started the computer, in the bottom right it "found new hardware." However, when I went to my My Computer I couldn't find the drive. I would have assumed it would have been an E or an F.
I then went to setup via control panel and clicked on hard drives. All three (including the new one showed up), I clicked on the properties and it said it was running properly etc. However, I can't move anything onto it because I can't find it in my "My computer" screen.
Thanks for any help you can offer!
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You bought a Western Digital? Ha ha ha ha ha
http://www.storagereview.com/articles/200303/20030320WD360GD_1.html
Goes alone nicely with my Seagate barracuda.
Goes alone nicely with my Seagate barracuda.
What OS you running?
Did you setup the drive/slave switches properly?
Is it a used drive?
How much did you pay for it?
Why did you buy a 36g?
Did you setup the drive/slave switches properly?
Is it a used drive?
How much did you pay for it?
Why did you buy a 36g?
Wrong forum, buttmunch. Try Tech.
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You probably just need a pointer in the right direction....
Right-click my computer. Select manage. Choose disk management.
I bet you'll get it from there...
Right-click my computer. Select manage. Choose disk management.
I bet you'll get it from there...
You need to initialize the drive and format it. TStephens has pointed out the way...
And I have never had any trouble with a western digital drive, especially their 10,000 rpm raptor series. I cannot say the same for Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi and IBM drives. I especially hate maxtor. They must die.
And I have never had any trouble with a western digital drive, especially their 10,000 rpm raptor series. I cannot say the same for Maxtor, Seagate, Hitachi and IBM drives. I especially hate maxtor. They must die.
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Dread Lörd Kaolian wrote:
And I have never had any trouble with a western digital drive, especially their 10,000 rpm raptor series.
These truly are the bomb. Now if only they made them SATA II...
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The 74gb and 150gb versions have all the sata ii features besides the 3gb per second transfer bus. That's not really a big issue though since no drive on the planet at the moment is capable of maxing out even the old 1.5 gb/s bus (you would need a 20,000 rpm drive to accomplesh that). The native command queing is the biggest issue, and the raptors do have that. The next generation raptors are slated to have the 3gb/s interface, but we probably won't see them until next may at the earliest
Edited, Jul 5th 2006 at 10:12pm EDT by Kaolian
Edited, Jul 5th 2006 at 10:12pm EDT by Kaolian
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I bought the smaller one running at 10,000 RPM mainly for Counter-Strike this season. During matches, the league enforces that you must record incase a person is cheating. I lag a bunch with my setup before and now that I have it properly setup I experience no choppiness.
I'm starting to use Sony Vegas program to make clips, and apparently transfering stuff can't get any quicker than with this raptor.
You should see the computer my brother just built. This is basically his old one. He's got it fully water-cooled, that new Am2 stuff along with the 7950 (two 7900's) however they run better than SLI.
P.S. The government bought it for me. Klein gave everybody in Alberta 400 dollars last fall and I finally used it to buy a monitor and this drive.
Edited, Jul 6th 2006 at 4:26am EDT by LtGoose
I'm starting to use Sony Vegas program to make clips, and apparently transfering stuff can't get any quicker than with this raptor.
You should see the computer my brother just built. This is basically his old one. He's got it fully water-cooled, that new Am2 stuff along with the 7950 (two 7900's) however they run better than SLI.
P.S. The government bought it for me. Klein gave everybody in Alberta 400 dollars last fall and I finally used it to buy a monitor and this drive.
Edited, Jul 6th 2006 at 4:26am EDT by LtGoose
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