Adding a 2nd HDD

Laquer Head

Laquer Head

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I have a Sony All-in-One that is currently running a WD Caviar Blue 640GB. It has Windows7 on it and I recently found out that there is a slot to add a second HDD.

Until today I never bothered to get a 2nd HDD because I didn't need it--but I ended up inheriting a free Hitachi Deskstar 500GB 7200rpm HDD and figured why not toss it in.

My problem is I have no clue the process on how to add it to my current system! I installed it and plugged it in--but what exactly do I need to do to make it my 'storage area drive'?

Do I need to reformat the whole thing? If so, its not a big deal because I don't have much stuff on the 640 anyhow!

Help Please
 
Yeah, you need to go into Disk Management and Partition and Format the new drive. Dont need to do anything with your main/OS drive.
 
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Getting it into that computer's probably the hard part... Assuming all that was done correctly, you should be pretty much good to go.

(click start) right-click on computer and go to Manage. Locate "Disk Management" and click that. You should see all your drives listed there. Find the 500GB drive. Now depending on the system it came from, you may have partitions on it. If you want it to be one big 500GB drive or wish to make your own new paritions, right click on each partition and click Delete Volume.

Hmm...now I don't have an unpartitioned drive setup on my Windows 7 system so I'm going from memory. From here you essentially right click the unallocated area and create a partition. You can pick whatever size you want, but probably want to format it to NTFS. Do this with each partition.

Once you do it a time or two, you'll realize it's quite simple :)
 
Wow, thats awesome guys!

This sounds hella easy! The All-in-One was built surprisingly well and the second HDD slot is only hidden behine one little panel. I found it by pure accident!

So that is awesome..I'm gonna give it a go in a few minutes.

I think I'll just leave it as one big-ass 500GB drive! I didn't realize you could do it so easily!

THanks guys
 
Damn! I can't believe how easy that was--recognized it right away and all I had to do was format the old junk off it!

Now my all-in-one is rockin'!! Not bad for a machine that I got for free cause my folks thought it was toast--turned out the oem 320GB was just toasted and for a $80.00 investment I added 2GB ram and a 640GB. Now I got this second 500GB for free!!

Woo-Haa

Thanks for the help guys!
 
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