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Home » Blogs » Engineer In Wonderland. Adding a second hard drive to a Windows 7 PC I have a PC at home that is kept for CAD — it is only connected to the internet for updates and downloading software, as well as occasionally looking up tutorials, but never random browsing. As it is slightly more secure than some PCs, I thought it would make a home for personal photos. I went through several on-line tutorials, to no avail. So, the message is, if you are having trouble adding a second HDD, that link could help.
Hats off to dummies. Unlock expert answers by supporting wikiHow. Spike Baron. Support wikiHow by unlocking this expert answer. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 0. My laptop got stuck on the booting menu. I have tried removing the RAM and putting it back, which didn't work, and now my hard disk cannot be detected. What should I do? It seems like your hard disk is corrupted.
You could try formatting the drive, but this would wipe all your data and remove Windows. You can open CMD from the boot menu and do a clean and format to fix the drive.
Your other option would be to get a new drive completely. Not Helpful 2 Helpful As long as the drive is recognized by your system, which it should be through plug and play, you should just be able to plug it in and drag the files to the external drive through your file explorer. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 4. How do I view data from an extra hard drive after I have connected it to my laptop?
Simply open up file explorer and select the drive. Often when you plug in an external drive, you'll be presented the option to view the files. Not Helpful 12 Helpful If I want to use the second hard drive as simple extra storage, do I still need to install an OS? No; only the primary drive needs an operating system.
As long as the second one is formatted properly by your preferred OS, it should function as simple storage. Not Helpful 1 Helpful 3. I believe you are asking about partitioning a single drive into multiple partitions.
Open disk management by searching "Partitions" in your Windows search bar. Select the drive you wish to partition with a right click and hit "Shrink drive. If you are partitioning to install a second OS, you'll have to use bootstrap or a similar program. External hard drives are extremely versatile. Just connect them with a USB cord. Not Helpful 4 Helpful 5. Everything I've read about adding a hard drive involves a new hard drive. I want to put the hard drive from my previous computer into my new one.
Will formatting erase the contents? Do everything exactly the same except formatting, because assuming it was being used in a Windows PC it was already formatted, and doing it again would only delete everything on it. Not Helpful 2 Helpful 3. My new hard drive isn't being detected by my computer. I've unplugged it and plugged it back into a different port and I know that it is getting power.
The cable and hard drive are new. If it's not recognized in BIOS, there could be a limit on the number of drives, the drive is incompatible or the port could be defective on the motherboard. Not Helpful 0 Helpful 2. Include your email address to get a message when this question is answered. External hard drives can be used to house separate operating systems. If you install a second operating system on your external hard drive, be sure to keep it plugged in at all times.
Helpful 0 Not Helpful 0. Their cables also block significantly less airflow than do IDE cables. Most hard drives are sensitive to Electrostatic Discharge ESD , so always remember to ground yourself before touching any of your computer's internal components. Helpful 2 Not Helpful 0. You Might Also Like How to. How to. About This Article. Co-authored by:. Co-authors: Updated: June 3, Categories: Hard Drives. Article Summary X 1.
Nederlands: Een extra harde schijf toevoegen. Thanks to all authors for creating a page that has been read 1,, times. But it would have been more helpful if it had some real life reference pictures of connecting hard drive to PC. More reader stories Hide reader stories. Is this article up to date? Cookies make wikiHow better. By continuing to use our site, you agree to our cookie policy.
Shashank Shekhar Nov 1, Anonymous May 22, Share yours! Open the computer case, and plug in the SATA data cable to the motherboard of your computer. Step 3. Now, you've installed the second hard drive into your computer. All you need is to press the power button to restart your computer and enter the next guide to set up the second hard drive.
To make your hard drive showing up and detected correctly in your computer, you need to initialize the disk, setting up a correct partition style, and create partitions on your disk. EaseUS Partition Master with its New Disk Guide feature makes it easy and simple for you: partition hard drive and initialize disk at the same time.
Once the customization is done, click "Proceed". By doing so, you'll get several volumes that share equal capacity on the disk, for example, 2 GB volumes on a GB disk. After creating volumes on the new disk, you may stop here. But if you need to make use of the hard drive, follow the next guide for help. Here, we collected two types of needs and offered respective tips to help you make use of the second hard disk.
If you tend to use the second hard drive as a data disk, you can now copy and paste large files into the second disk. For honing the best way to transfer large files, EaseUS Todo PCTrans now update the large file cleanup function, supporting moving files large than 20MB to another drive partition root and custom directories.
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