Western Digital 800 hard drive cant be found in desktop?

I have a West Digital 80GB hard drive given to me by my friend since his motherboard died on him and he has to go overseas.Before his motherboard died he uses the HD as a slave and it works fine before.I tried it on my computer and planned to use it as a slave too it doesn't appear in 'My Computer'.

I unplugged and plugged it again and check it on the BIOS it was detected.But when i got to the desktop it's not detected. Any ideas what might be the problem and any solutions for it??

Answer
if drive is ok in BIOS and no abnormal sound during boot.
there are many way to check it.

i. boot your system in normal with both HDDs and Right click on My computer>Manage>Device Manager>Disk Drives>(if both hdd shown in the list)>right click on your WD 80 Gb>properties>Volume>Click on Populate..
if drive letter shown in populate result.your hdd may have been save and you can access these drives
and also can format it.. OR.....
ii. Unplug your main hard drive, only plug in WD 80gb and boot from a bootable CD that have partition software, format it from any partition software like DM or Partition magic or DOS else.

What is better seagate or western digital hard drives?

Juan Jose

I am building my first desktop and i don't know whether to side with sea gate hard drives or western digital hard drives. I am looking for an interngrated drive that suits my current build.

For processor :
Intel core i5-3750k Ivy bridge 3.4Ghz (3.8Ghz turbo) LGA 1155 77W Quad-Core Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000

For a motherboard :
ASrock Z77 Extreme4 LGA 1155 Intel Z77 HDMI SATA 6b/s USB 3.0 ATX Intel Motherboard.

For RAM :
G.SKILL Ares Series 8GB ( 2 x 4GB ) 240 pin DDR3 1600 ( PC3 12800 ) Desktop Model F3-1600C9D-8GAB

For Case ( Will upgrade later on):
Rosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower Computer Case, comes with Three Fans-1x Front Blue LED 120mm Fan, 1x Top 140mm Fan, 1x Rear 120mm Fan, option Fans-2x Side 120mm Fan

Graphics Card:
I will temporally rely on the inter-grated 4000 hd graphics on the processor for now (For budget reasons)

Psu:
Corsair something around 650W

Note: Also any tips or advice on my build will be appreciated :)

Answer
Western Digital Caviar Black 1000gb
is the best for gaming.

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