Windows 7: add a hard drive

[ashraf888day]

arh!! finally! i love u guy! LIKELIKELIKE

[photomanfc]

I was a bit afraid of adding a drive, you made it simple and clear. Thank you! Great explanation.

[MrGimpyLoser]

Thanks a ton just got a Hitachi 1TB =) Never had that much space before =)

[MartinWastlund]

This instruction video made my day. Thank you very much for the information :)

[ZorroGatoMusic]

Thanks for the help brotha!!!



[swshomer1]

I was really happy to find this vid, but as time went on... you start thinking outloud, experimenting and just totally getting off track...GEEZE! Maybe a rehersal run through with a "stick to" script would be way much better. Play around - off camera.

[alangrubb7]

I am so greatful for the your vid:)

[cavanger]

thanks man :)

[jeffvanwormer]

thanks man this helped alot

[KanistriPoiss]

hey can i add a win XP hdd to my win 7 ? i havn't got a external hdd and i'd like to make a slave. and also is it possible to add a slave hdd , which has already a operation system and some files on? thanks :) ps i hav win7 64 bit home edition.

[technoblogical]

@KanistriPoiss You can add that hard drive, but it probably won't boot to it.

[MMAJohnWoo]

@technoblogical hey man i have huge problem and you seem to be the guy who could solve it! .. my computer died , i was using 2 hdd set up so that i could use one for the OS (Window7 32bit) and storage while the other would act as a storage too but without the need of the other in case died , now i just ordered a new pc that will be using window 7 64bit with 1 new hdd of 1tb .... my question would be : is it possible to recover some of my data (mostly games) from my old hdds?

[jubjub4261]

OMG THANK YOU!!! was having a headache trying to find a damn guide on how to install my 2nd hard drive.

ONCE AGAIN A BIG THANK YOU!!! THANX MAN!!

[TheBagBalm]

sata connection?

[Funketeshitman]

You are the man. Thanks :D

[Turonization]

Excellent video thanks!

[MrALenCar321]

if add a additional hard drive say a 250 gb hard with my existing 250 gb! will it show as 2 250 gb or 500 gb

[technoblogical]

@MrALenCar321 2 drives that are 250 GB

[MrALenCar321]

@technoblogical thanks for the info!

[radiothepirate]

Thanks :D

[theBabystache]

Thanks for the video. I was unsure on how to do this on Windows 7 because of the initialize screen.

[riacharda]

Thanks for this vid! I never knew HDD's had to be set up this way. I always thought they were Plug and Play with automatic formatting

[TheProDdigy]

Thank you so much man. You are a life saver ;)

[ElitePWNSFace]

Thank you for this video got my hard drive running. A 2 TB Western

[CheapSushi]

you put 4 partitians on a 20GB HDD!?!? What in the hell are you doing man?

[technoblogical]

@CheapSushi Showing that it can be done. What's the point in showing something without showing ALL the features? It's a virtual hard drive anyway, so it doesn't matter.

[Cyper51]

can u help me format my sata hard drive? cus i m tryin to put it in my pc, but it has another OS installed in it. please help. subbd

[Lostkey23]

can clone with SATA to IDE?

[technoblogical]

@Lostkey23 You may get a Blue Screen right away due to that drastic of hardware change. You will certainly have to re-authenticate to Microsoft. It may work. It may not. I don't know.

[Lostkey23]

Sir how to set SATA DRIVE to use as SLAVE?

[technoblogical]

@Lostkey23 Not possible. SATA drives only have one drive per cable. No master or Slave. PATA have two drives per ribbon cable, one master, one slave.

[sosroli]

for some reason when i plug in my SATA 2, 1.5 TB, while in windows, it doesnt get detected... but if i shut down, unplug the other SATA with windows, and plug it in the SATA 2 1.5TB, i can boot it, and it reads it. It must be a cable problem then right?

[technoblogical]

@sosroli I'd go to BIOS and enable all SATA ports first. I have a Mobo that can turn off just 3 and 4. You'll get error messages about missing devices, but at least then you'll know all the ports are turned on. Connect HDD#2 with both cables to SATA port #1.See if one of the cables are bad. Disconnect HDD#2. Then connect HDD#1 to SATA port #2 with both cables to check SATA port #2. Even if you get an error on the first port, I'd do each way. (Don't forget to turn off your unused SATA ports)

[soosrooland]

@technoblogical it was a cable problem, but why do i have to turn off unused sata ports?

[technoblogical]

@soosrooland You don't have to turn them off. But if you leave all of them turned on, then you'll get an error message all the time. The BIOS will expect there to a hard drive on all enabled ports. The BIOS is unable to communicate to a hard drive on that port. The BIOS concludes there must be something wrong since it can't communicate with the hard drive. It then sends you an error message every time you boot.

[GGGIKOE]

dude without you i wouldnt install my new 1tb hdd.

SO much thnx!!

[trysus]

thanksss for this video!

[duguder]

p4?

[yanni6556]

thanks

[DaKillerCow]

Thanks a lot for this video. Finally managed to get my new Hard Drive to work!

[nerofirestorm]

awesome thanks mate 

[ayalaamaury]

WHAT IF I INSTALL MY HARD DISK BUT WHEN I GOT TO MANAGE IT DOESNT SHOW ME THE DISK THAT I HAD ISTALLED AND I ALREADY CKECK THE CONECTIONS AND IT STILL DOESNT SHOW ME THE HARD DRIVE CAN YOU HEL ME SOLVE THIS PROMBLEM??

[chrysabra]

realy helpfull ,i thought i put it in and it would be fine hahahah, and your video was realy helpfull i did it and it went all swell. now i know where to find the sulotions with any probelem with pc.

[matcpn]

Thank you so much. I felt like a moron when i plugged in the harddrive and it didn't show up in computer ^^

[Sn0okkz]

my harddrive does not show up in windows 7, but it does show up in bios. and i think it enabled in bios

[Sn0okkz]

@Sn0okkz nevermind i got it now, but harddrives are ripoffs, i bought a 500GB one but i got only 465GB of it

[technoblogical]

@Sn0okkz Because of the math. Hard manufacturers say that 1 KB = 1000 Bytes. A computer says that 1 KB = 1024 Bytes. Same for MB/KB and GB/MB. So, HDD manufacturers claims that 1 GB = 1,000,000,000 bytes. To the computer, 1 GB = 1,073,741,824 bytes. That's where the difference comes from.

[TheNzFox]

thanks, just what i was missing, a lot of the 'install drive' help me are using old systems and drives, so are out of date and involve steps and actions with no longer apply

[Vayshen]

Cheers, just what I needed sir.

[nicholasgonzalez]

Cheers mate!

[TheKoufax6532]

Is this a joke? This guy sounds like this is the first time he has ever done this.

[ItalianEnvy]

sweet thanks man, worked for me to install my second hard drive, cheers

[ModusErudio]

Absolutly awesome video. New Computer, new SATA swapable; Gateway couldn't help me, Fry's couldn't help me.....and so on....you video did the trick in under 5 minutes.....thank you SO MUCH. :)

[ModusErudio]

Absolutly awesome video. New Computer, new SATA swapable; Gateway couldn't help me, Fry's couldn't help me.....and so on....you video did the trick in under 5 minutes.....thank you SO MUCH. :)

[AirRetroFlight]

Thanks a lot! This video was very helpful!

[jadenjak]

Thanks. Straight to the point. Got me sorted in no time.

[loupape]

Hey.. Thanks.. this really helped.. One suggestion.. my new HD didn't show up at first, but under "action" there is an option to rescan. Then it saw the new drive and I was able to go from there.

[KanesShow]

OMFG THANK YOU SO MUCH YOU ARE A LIFE SAVER!!!!

[princeking13]

Thank you Thank you!!! I thought I was doing someting wrong. you save my computer

[kristjanzzzz]

2:25-5:10

[omaralucio]

thanks dude , i'm newie on w7 and i was saying bad word because i couldn't find my hard drive 1TB just installed on my pc, you saved my life dude, keep going +10

[aerosoltalent]

thanks for the video helped me install second drive with no issues within minutes

thanks again.

[touwowjoakim]

thx for making this vid ;) helped alot

[ynotmoah]

Thanks for the vid...Just installed my 2TB Seagate Barracuda and workes like a charm. Much appreciated!

[drjordan6]

thanks a million

[TheKimDracula]

Thanks for this. It was a great help!

[Arachidon99]

Thanks, nice vid. Though it's not true that other OS's cannot write to NTFS. Linux can anyways. I'm not sure about mac. I use a dual boot system Linux/Windows where both OS's share a NTFS data partitions which they can both write to.

[kd5oldman]

Thanks! Someday I'll be good at W7 like I was with XP. There is soooo much to learn! Your instructions were perfect.

[kyandeiai]

THX!

[techygirl100]

lol, 'look at your hard drive while the computer is off ' . had to laugh at that one.

[jaycc9]

Good video. Just what I needed. Thanks.

[antipoopydick]

I still can't get an answer from MS what the max spec is for HDD space. I am guessing it's 2TB initialized.

[technoblogical]

For Fat32 it is 32 GB per partition

For NTFS 16,000,000 TB per partition.

The Fat32 limitation is a false one imposed by Microsoft. Fat32 is capable of 8 TB. You can have 26 partitions. One for each letter of the alphabet.

[Konraden]

If I remember correctly, XP would recognize the HDD in "My Computer" when it was connected, but it said "unallocated" or "unformatted" or something along those lines. When I plugged my new 1TB into my new Win7 system, I was dumbfounded. My HDD wasn't showing up in Computer. I went from XP to Win7, and felt like a new-fish to boot.

Your video helped. A quick run through the Management Screen solved that problem.

[TheBunnyBashers]

thnx dude it helped me alot

[appacana]

dude thank you very much this video helped me

[bronxbomber95]

thanks

[ZunkDeMunk]

Thanks m8. Appreciate it!

[sirklashviper]

great vid -thanks alot

[dpomd]

16GB drives? lol

[technoblogical]

That's the default in virtual PC

[dpomd]

Virtual PC sucks, get Vmware.

[kuunami]

yeah. These days just a few minutes of uncompressed hd video will eat up more than that.