Installing 2nd Hard Drive

I bought a new hard drive and installed windows 7 a few weeks back. Today I installed the original hard drive but I don't see it in Device manager or in windows explorer. I bought a cable and hooked it up to the mother board as well as the other connection coming off the same cable as the new hard drive. What else do I need to do? I need to get info off this old hard drive.

Thanks,
David

 

have you correctly set the master/slave jumper on the old hard drive?

 

From the Seagate barracuda 7200.9 manual (this is my old drive):

Each drive on the Serial ATA interface connects point-to-point with the Serial ATA host adapter. There is no master/slave relationship because each drive is considered a master in a point-to-point relationship. If two drives are attached on one Serial ATA host adapter, the host operating system views the two devices as if they were both “masters” on two separate ports. Both drives behave as if they are Device 0 (master) devices.

So I don't think I need to set any jumper. Besides, I see pins but did not come with the jumper.

 

You said both drives were on the same cable, so I assumed it was an older IDE type drive, as SATA drives cannot share a cable.

Can you see the drive in "Disk Management"?

 

And, why did you replace the old drive? Is it defective?

 

I replaced the old drive because I had little free space left.

It is a SATA drive. Problem solved. I entered set up and then had to "turn it on" then exited and when the computer started it was fine.

Thanks for the help guys.

 

Yes, it does help to 'turn things on'.

Glad you got it sorted, and thanks for the feedback. :major

 

Would you mind describing exactly how you did this?

Thanks.

 

1) Turned computer on and pressed F2 several times (I think F2. You will see in the upper right hand corner during start up "Press xxx to enter set up")

2) Once there used arrow key to go down to drives.
3) At drives I saw a list which included my 2 SATA drive.
Used arrow keys to go to 2nd SATA drive (which was my original that I re- installed)

4) Once highlighted I think I pressed enter to select. At top of screen with this drive highlighted there was a choice for "Off" or "on". Used arrow key to select on and pressed enter. Then exited set up and started computer.

 

Thank you...!