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Installing second HDD

chadwick17
Level 7

‎03-02-2011 01:06 PM - last edited on ‎03-05-2024 07:30 PM by Community Admin

Hello all,

I've been lurking through these forums for a while and have found a lot of valuable information. So I'd like to say thanks for that first.

I have a G73JH (Best Buy) and I just recently bought a Momentus XT to use as a second hard drive for my laptop. Actually, I want to use it as the primary drive to boot the OS off of. I've installed it into the 2nd bay but the computer doesn't seem to recognize it. When I look at my hardware under device manager it shows 2 hard disk drives but if I go to 'Computer' in Windows Explorer it doesn't show up. Just the current drive that I've been using and the DVD drive.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance!
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chadwick17
Level 7

‎03-02-2011 04:58 PM

Nevermind...got it figured out. I forgot I had to initialize the drive. Works now!
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Keith_Smith
Level 8

‎03-03-2011 06:33 AM

I would still make the momentus the main hdd if you plan on doing any kind of gaming. The 640gb it comes with is beyond noisy and slow.
ASUS G73JH
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chadwick17
Level 7
In response to Keith_Smith

‎03-03-2011 04:33 PM

Yeah, I'm running the Momentus XT as the main HDD. Working beautiful as of the moment...nice to have both hard drive bays being used as well. Good thing they finally started selling those hard drive caddies through the ASUS store
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grifmoney
Level 7

‎12-23-2011 09:43 AM

I'm having an identical problem. How do you initialize a drive?
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BrodyBoy
Level 10
In response to grifmoney

‎12-23-2011 10:55 AM

grifmoney wrote:
I'm having an identical problem. How do you initialize a drive?

Select it in Windows DIsk Management, right-click and select "Initialize disk."
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