Hard Drive not detected in My Computer

[Mike2002]

My friend just bougth a 250 gig hard drive. He installed it as the secondary master drive and he said its detected in the BIOS. When he goes to find it in My Computer, it isn't there. What are the reasons that this can happen, and is there anyway to fix it.

 

[BlacKJesuS]

Move the pins in the backk around so that it acts like a slave?

 

[Alowishus]

you have to format the drive. In windows xp right click on my computer, go to manage and then click on disk management. Partition/Format the drive there.

 

[villageidiot111]

The drive needs to be formatted.

 

[Mike2002]

My friend tried to format it, but where you go to format the drives, the new drive did not show up to be formatted.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Mike2002
My friend just bougth a 250 gig hard drive. He installed it as the secondary master drive and he said its detected in the BIOS. When he goes to find it in My Computer, it isn't there. What are the reasons that this can happen, and is there anyway to fix it.

Is is Serial ATA or ATA133?

 

[Mike2002]

The drive is a Seagate and its ATA133.

 

[Viditor]

Have him go to control panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk management.
Find the drive, initialize the drive as a partition, then format the partition

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Viditor
Have him go to control panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk management.
Find the drive, initialize the drive as a partition, then format the partition

Before you format the drive it must be partitioned. Partition the drive first then format.

 

[Viditor]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Viditor
Have him go to control panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk management.
Find the drive, initialize the drive as a partition, then format the partition

Before you format the drive it must be partitioned. Partition the drive first then format.

I thought that's what I said...🙂

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Viditor

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Viditor
Have him go to control panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk management.
Find the drive, initialize the drive as a partition, then format the partition

Before you format the drive it must be partitioned. Partition the drive first then format.

I thought that's what I said...🙂

<----------------------------------- Silly Idiot!

 

[Viditor]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Viditor

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: Viditor
Have him go to control panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk management.
Find the drive, initialize the drive as a partition, then format the partition

Before you format the drive it must be partitioned. Partition the drive first then format.

I thought that's what I said...🙂

<----------------------------------- Silly Idiot!

Welcome to MY world...😉

 

[SirFelixCat]

Not my thread, but wanted to throw a thank you out there to you fellas for the help...I had the same problem and did a search and found this thread. Worked like a charm.

Thanks fellas.