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New 250 GB hard drive is not showing up.

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aic

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I have a Dell 8250 with XP and XP has been updated.

1) The master is a 80GB and is showing up as the C drive.
2) The 250 GB was set as the slave and was not showing up. I did set the jumper to slave.
3) I then installed the included ATA controller card and put the blue end on the IDE 1 section of the controller card and I put the black 40-pin connector "secondary" drive connector to the 250 GB hard drive. I removed the jumper pin because the picture in the instructions did not have one. The drive still did not show up.
4) I did not load the ATA controller card drivers. The instructions confused me.
5) I did not load the ATAn controller card first before hooking up the hard drive. I installed the ATA card and the new hard drive at the same time.
6) The drive shows as working in device manager.

Thanks.
 
start--settings--control panel--admin tools--computer--computer manag--disk manage...and then format/initialize the drive. You might want to think about getting the controller card drivers installed
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Thanks.

Update: I removed the ATA controller card and I went into computer management and under "action" I "rescan disks". My C drive shows up as disk 0 and is healthy. My 250 GB hard drive shows up as disk 1 with a black stripe and 232GB and "unallocated". I right click on it and the only option I have is new partition. Does it need to be formatted?

I do not have the option of formatting the disk. Am I missing the prompt?

Since it is showing up I do not believe I need the controller card?
 
Originally posted by: chocoruacal
start--settings--control panel--admin tools--computer--computer manag--disk manage...and then format/initialize the drive. You might want to think about getting the controller card drivers installed
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Hmm the last time I checked this was a forum where people came to ask questions
not to have someone
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because they think their question is stupid. Come on
man.
 
A drive must be partitioned in order to format it.
So you don't need the controller card.

Just partion it and format and away you go.
 
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