HP HDX18t - Second drive

[71chevellejohn]

I installed a second drive(for storage) in my laptop using an HP cradle and SATA cable from a junk laptop(broken screen). For some reason it doesn't show up in the list of available drives.

Shouldn't the second drive bay be active when something is connected? Or is there somewhere that the second drive bay needs to be turned on(either windows or BIOS)?

Thanks in advance.

[71chevellejohn]

Nevermind... I had a case of the dumb and didn't remember that the new drive was unallocated space and needed to be formatted.

#Derp!

[Ratt]

Needs to be formatted and set as an active partition in Disk Management.

[71chevellejohn]

Yep, I don't know why I didn't do that right off the bat. It's running good now.