New Hard Drive Makes My Pc Frozen

[Volcano]

Hello

I bought a new hard drive, but when I plug it in my case nothing comes to monitor, it makes my PC frozen.Why?

Motherboard: Asus K8N

Hard drive: Seagate Barracuda 500 GB 7200.12

[Jelly Bean]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

 

You connected internaly?

 

Is it a slave drive or an external USB drive?

[Volcano]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

 

You connected internaly?

 

Is it a slave drive or an external USB drive?

 

Yes, internally.I plug it in place of my older hdd which is 80GB working properly, but the new one makes my computer frozen, my monitor just winks at me.

[snow]

Hi,

 

If you simply replace your existing hard drive with a brand new one, then all you will have is an empty, blank drive in the computer, and you won't be able to start windows, because windows is installed on your old hard drive.

 

If you want to use the drive, then the easiest way is to connect your old hard drive back up the way it was, and insert the new drive in a slot beside it, and connect it to a different port on the motherboard.

[Volcano]

I will put a jumper on it to reduce its speed 1.5gb/s

[snow]

Seagate drives come with a jumper on them. This setting puts them in 1.5Gbps mode. Having looked at your motherboard specs, it seems to only support SATA, and not SATA 2, so:

 

Leave the jumper on the drive, exactly the way it came.

 

As I said you will need to install it alongside your old drive, so that your computer has an operating system to boot from. You will be able to use the drive once you are in windows.

[Plastic Nev]

Hi, I will also add, if you really do want to replace the existing hard drive with the new one, rather than having them run side by side, you will need to partition and install Windows onto the new drive. For this you will need the Windows disk plus also a disk with all the drivers on it.

Whichever way you wish to go, we will help.

[Volcano]

I fixed the problem with just a jumper.Thanks to all.It seems 465 GB, is it normal?

[Jelly Bean]

That s excellent

 

Yes that is pritty normal,its a manufacturer design.The size can vary on the actual size of hard drive.

[Volcano]

Would it have been the same size if I had formatted it as FAT32?

[Plastic Nev]

Hi Volcano, Probably would, but if you went for NTFS you are better off as FAT32 will not take large files.

[Volcano]

Ok. I have a 80GB HDD too and divided into 3 parts.How can I combine the two parts "D-E" which have not the system (XP).

[Tootech]

.It seems 465 GB, is it normal?

 

Yes, drive manufacturers define capacity as 1000's of bytes, computers count in 1024's of bytes. Net result is that computers report capacity differently.

 

Forget FAT32 - its from the dark ages and really only should be used on flash drives etc.

 

How can I combine the two parts "D-E" which have not the system (XP).

 

Do you have data stored on D and E?

 

If not, just go to Disk Management - Right click over My Computer and select Manage

 

Delete the partitions D and E and then create a single partition on the space available.

 

If you DO have data stored there, come back and let us know before doing anything.

Edited August 30, 2009 by Tootech

[Volcano]

Yes, I have data stored on both them.I think I should copy them to the 500GB one then delete the partitions after that format it as NTFS and make only two partitions, C and D for 80GB one.