22/03: Expanding your system by adding a nice new SATA 2 One Terabyte Western Digital Disk
Category: General
Posted by: spyhwearslayer
You would think that adding a disk to a Dell Dimension Tower computer would be easy wouldn't you,I mean it childs play isn't it..... like tasking candy from a babe!
Well it depends on what kind of computer engineer you are...... You may find that you buy the drive and get it attached to the computer by using a SATA Data Cable and a Power Cable. But then what if you turn on the computer and the drive just is not there...
I mean can't be seen in My Computer and can not be seen in Disk Management, Computer Management, Disk management (Local). What then huhhh.
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Well i'll tell you, there's a couple of things to think about, and to alter, and I will detail them right here in this blog article...
A SATA port on a computer may be switched off at the bios level and just to make things even harder, "it may be the case that switched off is the default state," so if your motherboard is new from the shop of the factory, then it is very likely that the SATA port is physically there but switched off. This means that it will be switched off every time you boot the computer.... wonderfull aint it!
What you need to do is start the computer and press F2 to go into the bios. Next you need to look throught he bios and find the disks. Next look for the SATA Disks not the Flopply Disk or the PATA Disks, but the SATA Disk. You must turn the port on, but to do so you may need to change the state to on, and press enter to tell the bios that that is your selection (on), and then save your changes in the bios. You may well need to do all three of these things as well as reboot the computer, that is four things ain't it. Now there's a chance that Windows will show the disk as being there, sitting pretty so to say!
Look you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile, and you might ask yourself, theres no point in adding a New Disk if you have not backed up all of your Customers Data to a drive prior to putting the computer back to how it came out of the Factory. If it is at all possible all of the Customers Data should be backed up to a nice new External Drive that has backup software on it, alternatively just an external drive thats working and is large enough.
Well it depends on what kind of computer engineer you are...... You may find that you buy the drive and get it attached to the computer by using a SATA Data Cable and a Power Cable. But then what if you turn on the computer and the drive just is not there...
I mean can't be seen in My Computer and can not be seen in Disk Management, Computer Management, Disk management (Local). What then huhhh.
.............................................................
Well i'll tell you, there's a couple of things to think about, and to alter, and I will detail them right here in this blog article...
A SATA port on a computer may be switched off at the bios level and just to make things even harder, "it may be the case that switched off is the default state," so if your motherboard is new from the shop of the factory, then it is very likely that the SATA port is physically there but switched off. This means that it will be switched off every time you boot the computer.... wonderfull aint it!
What you need to do is start the computer and press F2 to go into the bios. Next you need to look throught he bios and find the disks. Next look for the SATA Disks not the Flopply Disk or the PATA Disks, but the SATA Disk. You must turn the port on, but to do so you may need to change the state to on, and press enter to tell the bios that that is your selection (on), and then save your changes in the bios. You may well need to do all three of these things as well as reboot the computer, that is four things ain't it. Now there's a chance that Windows will show the disk as being there, sitting pretty so to say!
Look you may find yourself behind the wheel of a large automobile, and you might ask yourself, theres no point in adding a New Disk if you have not backed up all of your Customers Data to a drive prior to putting the computer back to how it came out of the Factory. If it is at all possible all of the Customers Data should be backed up to a nice new External Drive that has backup software on it, alternatively just an external drive thats working and is large enough.
