New HD not recognized...kinda

[rcomo]

OK. My BIOS recognizes it ~ set up correctly (I have an 80g and a 120g).

I checked the connections and it is what I wanted: 80g - master, 120g slave.

In My Computer - Properties - Hardware, it recognizes it (Shows under Disk Drives the 2 HDs)

But, when I look under My Computer (just regularly, not under properties) it only shows 1 drive (my original 80g as a C: drive).

What gives?

 

[oog]

Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management
Under the Storage part of the tool, pick Disk Management
The new drive should show up there. Does it have a partition? If not, you'll need to create one and format it.

 

[JetBlack69]

In the control panel, go to Administrative Tools (assuming it's windows XP) and then look in Computer Management. Look in the Disk Management section, what's listed there?

What OS is it?

 

[rcomo]

OK i am running win xp home.

Under disk management, I have disk 0 -my 80g.
Under disk 1 - I have an unallocated disk.

I am assuming that I have not formated it. What should I do to do this? Never formated a 2nd hard drive before, only when I have done a fresh instal of windows.

 

[Lonyo]

Click on the disk, and format it (might be a right click menu option).
Use NTFS and 4kb clusters.

I have Win2k so I'm not 100% sure if XP will be the same, I guess it will.

 

[rcomo]

Gratzy.