New Hard Drive not working (BIOS Drivers¿)

[Summiner]

Just got my new Western Digital Caviar SE WD3200JB 320GB 7200 RPM IDE Ultra ATA100 Hard Drive today.

It says new hard ware found but does not appear under my computer. It is under Computer Managment but has all of it Allocated.

Do I need to update my BIOS? I have a AMD Athlon XP 1.99 GHz, and have not been able to find the right dirvers.

Thanks for any help!

 

[FlyingPenguin]

Did you go to Disk Management and partition it and format it?

There's no driver required and if it appears in Device Manager without any errors it's working.

Only problem you MAY has is if your system doesn't support 48bit LBA the drive will only be detected as a 137Gb drive:

REQUIREMENTS FOR SUPPORT OF 48-BIT LBA (EXCEEDING 137GB HDD SIZE LIMIT):
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OPERATING SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

Windows 2000 with Service Pack 3 or better or Windows XP with Service Pack 1 or better


HARDWARE REQUIREMENTS:

Your hard drive controller must support 48bit LBA (Large Block Addressing) - check the motherboard manufacturer's website for BIOS update and/or motherboard chipset driver update that MAY add this ability.

Alternately, you can install an add-on 48bit LBA capable controller card.


MOTHERBOARD DRIVER AND BIOS UPDATE:

You may need install the latest motherboard BIOS update.

You may need to install the latest motherboard driver. Intel boards in particular may require the latest "Intel Application Accelerator" driver.