New Hard Drive Won't Display

[dudleydocker]

OK, so I installed my new Maxtor 80 GB to test it out. My current rig has a SCSI boot drive. the Maxtor and another WD are the only IDE devices. I have them configured with the Maxtor as a master and the WD as a slave on one channel. They both show up in the BIOS and at boot-up. I can see both drives in Partition Magic, as well as under Device Manager. But I can't see the new Maxtor any where else! No 'my computer', nothin. What am I doing wrong? 😱

 

[Wolfsraider]

did you format and partition the maxtor?

 

[dudleydocker]

Yup. I didn't use any of the Maxtor software. Just 'activated' (acknowledged?) in Partition Magic, then formatted it as NTFS (running XP). The fact that it shows up in Device Manager tells me Windows 'sees' it, correct?

 

[OulOat]

Which windows? Pre XP/2k ones may have problems with large partitions.

 

[dudleydocker]

Running XP. Partition size shouldn't be an issue because the other IDE drive is a WD 100 GB. Although it's currently split into two partitions (70 and 30) it did originally display as 100 when it was one big partition.

 

[chizow]

did you try the add/remove new hardware function? try the auto detect function.

chiz

 

[Yomicron]

under Start->Programs->Adminstrative Tools->Computer Management ->Storage->Disk Management what do you see in regards to your missing drive?

 

[dudleydocker]

I did the add/remove new hardware routine, nothing. Also the autodetect, nothing.