Computer Build Assistance

[Eric P]

The 5 year old Core 2 Duo I was using for a HTPC crapped the bed recently, so I built a new machine to replace it.  It has two 1TB drives in it and the C2D's 160 gig which handles the OS.

I'm using Win7 because I can't seem to get XBMC to play some video files (weirdly it will play the sound but not the video, if you hit esc to get to the menu, the video pops up and plays beautifully...underneath the overlay).  The problem is that device manager sees the new 1TB drive exists but I can't get the Disk Manager program to recognize that there's a drive there.

I haven't built a system in forever, so I'm at a bit of a loss as to what could be happening.  I switched the SATA cables in the box just in case it didn't like that port for sequential reasons or whatever, but that didn't solve the problem.

Any thoughts?

specs for the gearwhores

   

ASRock MB-A75PR4M
AMD A8-3870K APU with AMD Radeon 6550 HD Graphics 3.0GHz Unlocked Socket
6 GB DDR3 RAM (G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 4GB, the other two random stuff I had)
Antec NSK2480 Desktop case 380W PS

[naff]

The core 2 duo's 160 gig?

[Momo]

AMD A8-3870K APU with AMD Radeon 6550 HD Graphics 3.0GHz Unlocked Socket

Would you be able to game on this with medium settings? Want to try building a HTPC.

As for your drive issue,




alternatively format your drive from within windows, assign it a drive letter and logic name then reboot.

[Eric P]

AMD A8-3870K APU with AMD Radeon 6550 HD Graphics 3.0GHz Unlocked Socket

Would you be able to game on this with medium settings? Want to try building a HTPC.

As for your drive issue, if there is no data on it, format it from windows, assign a drive letter and logical name and you will be fine.

yeah, that's the issue.  The drive shows up in device manager but not in the Disk Manager program which I need to use to format the drive.

The core 2 duo's 160 gig?

yes

[Momo]

Edited in a video it's probably a better fit to your issue

[Eric P]

thanks.  I'll take a look at that tonight.

[Eric P]

And of course I boot it up today and everything works just fine.  can find the disk in windows and can format it and it instantly begins working and i got my XBMC issue solved as well so it looks like i'm good to go.

Thanks for everyone's input