Hard Drive help, please

[mongoloido]

Hello all. Been reading the main anandtech reviews for a month now to figure out what parts to get for building my first computer. Seems only fitting to come here for my first big goof.

In my haste to get the new computer up and running, I totally forgot to plug all the wires into my storage drive. Now that I have, I can see it in the bios and in the device manager, but not in "my computer." I'm guessing I have to format it before I can see it there, but have no idea how to do so. I have XP up and running on the small main drive... Um, guess some specs would probably be helpfull:

DFI LanParty UT nF4 Ultra-D
Western Digital 36gig 10,000rpm sata
Seagate 200gig 7,200rpm sata (the problem child )
Dual layer DVD burner
Floppy
1gig Geil pc3200 ram
X800XL video card

XP PRO


Any help would be greatly appreciated. Only got 4 hours of sleep last night because I couldn't stop thinking about the problem... Ugh. I felt like a god when I got this thing running. Now I feel a little less godly




P.S. Any idea how I get the computer to simply continue booting on startup? It waits for me to make that "hit F1 to continue or Del to enter Bios" decision every time. I'm sure it's something simple, but my heads still swimming from all the new stuff I've been trying to cram in there.

 

[KGB]

Mongo,

Welcome to the Forums! :beer:

For your HD, right click on My Computer and select Manage.
Go to Disk Management and you should see your 200GB drive in there.
Right click on it and create a partition and after that you can format it.

I'm not familiar with your DFI MB so I can't help with your BIOS issue.

 

[mongoloido]

Woot! Thanks a million, man. I was up late, and then tossing and turning all night over that one. I knew it was something simple, but couldn't figure out what. I eventually learned that no matter how many times I went into device manager, there never appeared a "click me to make your problem go away" button.

BTW: I gave advice to some guy about unnecessary running processes. You may want to double-check that advice and stop him from blowing up his computer.