Installed a new hard drive and.....

[imhotepmp]

I cant access it!! I can see it in the system properties and its says its working fine..but its not listed with the rest of my drives. So when i open up "My Computer" it doesnt show up. Ive tried putting it on different ide cables, check the jumpers, etc. Still no use. Here ae my specs:
Win2k
abit be6-II
cII533@840
128mb pc 133 ram
the drive thats doin this is a WD Caviar21200 4.3gb

DOes anyone have any idea wats goin on?

 

[Prodigy^]

you need to make it compatible with your computer first, so to speak

boot in DOS, and type:

fdisk.exe

now go through the menus, it should be logical enough. make sure your computer doesn't feck up during this process.

when it's done, you might have to reboot (can't remember), still in dos type:

format x:

with x: being the drive letter (will most likely be d: ) (EDIT: lol those smilies made it show up like "will most likely be d"

wait until it's done and now you should be able to see your drive just fine

 

[imhotepmp]

and how do you boot into dos??
i started with win98...

 

[Sugadaddy]

Startmenu, shut down, restart in ms-dos mode, or boot with your win98 floppy

 

[Prodigy^]

or press F8 on startup and choose "command prompt only" or something

 

[HannibalX]

if it is not your C drive you can do it from windows, just go to command line and type "command"