I have just bought a WD caviar green 1.5TB HD and it seems to think it is a floppy drive, ahhhhhh

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I have recently bought a WD caviar green 1.5TB HD and filled it with 500GB of things on a friends XP machine where it worked perfectly. Now that I have installed it in my home pc in both XP and Windows7 64bit boot the OS claims it is a empty floppy disk drive.

AHHHHHHHHHHH can someone please help

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Umm… are you sure you aren’t just looking at the empty floppy drive that was there before, and the system just does not see the caviar at all?

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not a chance I do not have a floppy drive

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what does it show up in the bios?

what does it show up in device manager?

what does it show up in compmgmt.msc?

what does it show up in explorer / my computer?

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in my computer it would seems to be a floppy drive and in the device manager it says under Disc drives that I have my boot drive and a WDC WD15EADS-00S2B0 ATA Device and it claimes to be working properly

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did it give it the drive letter A?

do you have the floppy controller disabled in the bios?

what happens when you change the drive letter in compmgmt.msc / disc management?

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WOOOOt I just right click the unknown storage device in compmgmt.msc and selected import foreign data or something and it seems to work perfectally

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thanks I was hardly aware of compmgmt.msc but it will be my first call from now on

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glad i could help, kudos me if you want (that star to the left, under my name)

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sure np