2011/01/03
Installing a new TB (Terabyte) Hard Drive... I bought a new Western Digital TB hard drive for the purposes of increasing my available file space.

So, I go to install it into my main desktop...

(I was going to install it into my SERVER; however, I do not have any more SATA connections available because they are used by the other 5 hard drives that I have installed)

... and due to the power supply that I have, there are no more SATA power connections left... [ANGER LEVEL: 3 out of 10].

I run to Radio Shack and get solicited immediately by the guy who works there... I tell him I need a Molex-to-SATA power adapter... He looks at me like I am retarded and tells me that he has never heard of that before... and says: "What is MOLEX, I do not know that term?", he walks me to the area where he thinks it should be, and I see nothing of what I am looking for...

Another guy hears what I said: MOLEX, and says: "It may be over here." So I walk over to that guy, and there it is... hanging on the shelf next to the same items I saw on the other shelf (not very organized in terms of inventory placement). I buy it for $2.99, and ride on out.

I drive home and I am ready to install the new hard drive into my desktop. I disassemble my desktop and notice that I need to rearrange the other 2 hard drives currently in the machine in order to make the new one fit.

It turns out that I had to drill new holes in the hard drive carrier to make them all fit, cause I put a hard drive in the floppy drive area, and the holes did not line up. [ANGER LEVEL: 6 out of 10]

Now everything is installed... I re-attach the PC sidewall, and plug everything back in... and boot it up, and: "NO BOOTABLE DEVICE IS ATTACHED - strike any key to continue"... [ANGER LEVEL: 8 out of 10]

So I disassemble everything yet again... only to find that I forgot to plug the power adapter into the OS Hard drive... [ANGER LEVEL: 9 out of 10 - based on my own stupidity]

It works now. || sk0t @ 3:20 PM :: Comments [5] :: Digg This ||