t410s + ebay ultrabay + hitachi dd : problem

Hello all !

I'm in trouble ! I have a t410s + 160 ssd ;
I bought an ultrabay on ebay (1) + a 500GB Hitachi 2.5" SATA Hard Disk Drive (5400rpm, 8MB cache)

Just plug and play isn'it ?
I plugged, I cant make it work ; the new hdd doesnt exist in Windows 7 (not shown in explorer, only 2 partitions on sdd are shown) ; the ultrabay's blue led lights on while startup, then not more, just a sighty, no activity.

In bios (f1), I see my hard drive listed (startup menu) ;
This drive is listed too in the remove safely box ;
And, first, when I plug the bay+hdd in, Windows says he will power the thing.

(1) http://cgi.ebay.fr/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemVersion&item=300584540229&view=all&tid=590584441020

By the way, my ultrabay doesnt have the little plastic thing highlighted there (what's this ??) :



Any ideas ??
Thank you.

 

1. Start | right click Computer
2. Select Manage
3. From the Management app, expand Storage
4. Click Disk Management

Or you can do a Start | enter Disk Management and hit enter.

Do you see the drive there? If so, you just need to initialize it, create a partition, format it, and assign a drive letter.

 

Hi Thors !

Yes, yes, I guess you are right, I'll confirm in a moment ; thank you very much for your help.
Ahaha, I'm sorry, I've been like a dumb

Hum, is there a good (or bad) choice for what letter to assign this new drive ? (I may use the dvd sometimes and an external hdd too) and can not anticipate if there is smarter choice or not.

 

It's up to you.. I would say it's pretty logical to make it D:

 

Lets go for D, I wish i will be lucky with that.
(...)
It works now ; donderfull

Thank you both.

 

this little tab thing that you highlighted in yellow prevents these drive to be be plugged into the old T60/T61 machines which uses the PATA connector rather than the SATA connector.