2nd SATA not recognized

I robbed a SATA HD from another computer I have because I need it as a slave
to off load some files so I can reformat my main. From what I've read it
should just auto detect because there are no jumpers. My mobo has 4 SATA
plugs and I've plugged it into 2 of the slots so far and neither have
resulted in it being detected when I login to windows.

My primary HD is the same brand as the one I'm borrowing.

Any suggestions?

"Robert Blackwell" <robatNOSPAMwowcentral.com> wrote in message
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>I robbed a SATA HD from another computer I have because I need it as a
>slave to off load some files so I can reformat my main. From what I've read
>it should just auto detect because there are no jumpers. My mobo has 4 SATA
>plugs and I've plugged it into 2 of the slots so far and neither have
>resulted in it being detected when I login to windows.
>
> My primary HD is the same brand as the one I'm borrowing.


Did you check that the other SATA ports are enabled in your BIOS? In the
SATA controller's BIOS?

Did you check if the physical drive gets detected and listed in the Disk
Management applet (diskmgmt.msc)? Could be you just haven't assigned it a
drive letter yet.

Oh that was it. I didn't know you had to enable it in the bios first.
Thanks.