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    Installing Hard Drives

    Discussion in 'HP' started by otscay, Jun 5, 2007.

  1. otscay

    otscay Newbie

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    I have an HP Pavilion dv9000t. When purchased, it had a 160gb 5400rpm single SATA hard drive. I've since purchased 2 100gb 7200rpm SATA hard drives. I've installed one in the primary drive bay which of course has the operating system on it. Today I installed the second 100gb 7200rpm SATA hard drive in the second drive bay. MY QUESTION IS?? Am I to do anything special to prep the second drive. Does the PC sense the additional hard drive on it's own?? MY NEXT QUESTION?? When I opened the HP Advisor I expected to see the additional available hard drive space in gb's. Right now all I'm seeing is the space in use on the primary drive #1.Shouldn't I see the additional space available somewhere?? I'd appreciate any information anyone could give me regarding the above. THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR YOUR HELP!!!


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  2. vespoli

    vespoli 402 NBR Reviewer

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    1.) I don't think you need to do anything special to "prep" as long as the second bay supports and accepts the additional hard disk.
    2.) You should see either more space or a second disk in the "My Computer" window depending on how the disks are configured.
     
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  3. AtLarge

    AtLarge Notebook Geek

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    I forget the exact process now but when I did mine I had to go through device manager and actually tell Vista to "mount" the new drive. Poke around in there. I'm sure you'll figure it out.
     
    AtLarge, Jun 6, 2007
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  4. SideSwipe

    SideSwipe Notebook Virtuoso

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    hmmm so you bought it with a single drive? so the second bay already had the hard drive adapter which you inserted into the hard drive and then installed? or did u have to purchase this separately? cuz ppl who buy them with single drives usually have to purchase the adapter bay afterwards if they wanna use the second drive bay.

    if u have done so and it is recognised in the BIOS then you could go to computer management and mount or activate it, perhaps you need to create a partition in order to see it in HP advisor? did u do this?
     
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  5. otscay

    otscay Newbie

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    No. I have not formatted the drive. When asking the HP tech on a phone session I was told that wasn't needed. I NOW NO BETTER!! Thankyou for the information.
     
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    orev Notebook Virtuoso

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    I'm also curious about the drive adapter for the second bay. Did you have to get that from somewhere? Details on that would be appreciated.
     
    orev, Jun 6, 2007
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