Computers and I

A few days ago I received my hard drive that I had ordered online from Newegg. It was quite a step up from the 20 GB IDE drive I was using before. I was excited as I always am when I get something in the mail (bills not included). But this was different.

I was happy for a minute but then I thought about it. I was going to to have to take out my old hard drive with the OS installed and reinstall everything from scratch. Also I'm not much of a wiz with computer hardware. I pretty much know just enough to get by without blowing something up or electrocuting myself. But even knowing the little I do I'm still worried when ever I have to slide open that case and get down in there plugging and unplugging things. I'm always sure that somethings going to go wrong and I'm never going to get it working again.

So last night ago I finally willed myself to unplug the old hard drive and plug in the new one. This process went smoothly even though I had to figure out where to plug the SATA II drive into on the motherboard. Once I got that sorted out I booted the sucker up and it actually worked and detected the drive. SUCCESS well not quite.

For some reason the computer decided not to detect the other drive I already had installed on the motherboard. And it just happen to be the drive where I had all my crap stored on (since my OS drive only had 20GB).

So installed all the drivers and what not and but it still didn't detect it. Finally I just said screw it I'll deal with it later cause I was pretty tired after watching a bunch of progress bars move across my computer screen.

On my motherboard I have 2 SATA drive slots and 1 STAT II slot. I had left the one drive that was attached to the SATA drive slot alone because it was working before why would I change it. But this morning I thought to myself what would happen if I connected the old drive to the other SATA slot. I just changed it to the other slot and low and behold it worked. I'm not exactly sure what the issue was and frankly I don't care as long as it works. It could be a miracle from God for all I care (although thats a pretty small miracle).

I didn't have a chance to actually work on the computer to make sure everything was hunky and also dory but it seemed to work fine so I'll just have to check it out later.