Is it safe to plug in a HDD after there already is one in?

[Steve5452]

Hit start, right click Computer, click Manage. Click Disk Management on the left, right click one of the partitions of the drive and click Extend Volume.
I don't quite remember what appears after that, but it should be pretty straight forward.

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[Crispy_]

click Extend Volume.

Uh oh... Why would this happen?

[Steve5452]

Delete all the volumes on the disk then make a new partition.

[SeventhSandwich]

Can you put hot water in cold water?

I hate people who answer questions this way.

Can you go drown yourself?

so can I just turn off my computer, plug it in with SATA and the Power Supply, and just turn it on and see it mounted :S?

Yeah, it should be fine. But if you want to set up a RAID array or something more complicated, you might need additional hardware like a RAID card or something. If you're just going to use it as a backup drive or extra storage, you should be fine as is.

[Crispy_]

Delete all the volumes on the disk then make a new partition.

Holy stuff it worked!

thankie

[Ethan]

I also have a question about hard drives, if a bit Off topic

If i bought an external HDD, could I plug that into a USB hub and it'd work fine, or do I have to plug it directly into a port?

It would most definitely work however depending on what standard your Motherboard/USB hub/Hard Drive are all using will probably be slow.
If it's all USB 3 then it'll be nice and zippy though.

[blockguy123]

I have...

1x 1TB HDD
2x 500GB HDD
3x 250GB HDD
1x 80GB HDD

1x 150GB SSD

3x 1TB External
1x 2TB External

Currently in use:
1x 500GB
1x 2TB External.

:) logic

i want the 1 tb one