need help recongnizing a new, third hard drive

[Eric998765]

so i built a new computer about 6 months ago and put in a 160GB and 500GB seagate 7200 rpm sata hard drives. i use the 160 for installing programs and basic stuff, and the 500 for all of my music and movies. well, i already ran out of space on my 500 and so i bought another one, exactly the same, so i will have a total of 1.16TB of space on my computer. i had one sata plug left so i plugged it in, and when i rebooted my computer, i still have drive c (the 160GB) and my drive d (old 500) has a volume label of "drive d", but in my computer it has a set of parenthesis and the letter f next to it (meaning its drive f labeled as drive d). i restarted and went into the BIOS and i notice that all three of the drives show up (by the way, my dvd burner is in a sata slot also, so i have 4 drive show up), and when i boot up all 4 drives show up in the remove hardware, but not my computer. is there any way i can get my "drive d" to get noticed as drive d again instead of f, and for my new drive to show up in general. right now my computer lists the d drive as a removable drive, but i opened up power iso and daemon tools and made sure neither had a virtual drive running. thanks for all the help

my computer is running 64 bit vista enterprise if that helps any.

thanks again

 

[Jawo]

Well it souds like the BIOS and device manager recognize it, so its hooked up correctly. Go into Computer Management (Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management in XP Pro) anc click on Disk Management. It will show all physical HDD with the logical partitions. You should get a popup asking if you want to format the drive. Simple thing to over look 🙂