Problem Installing Raptor 74G HDD

[Bigdefense77]

I'm having an issue installing my new Raptor HDD (OEM). Even though my BIOS recognizes the drive and I can choose the boot order of it etc.. XP doesn't seem to recognize the drive. When I click my computer it just shows my C drive that windows is obviously running off of.

Also when I go to My Computer > Right Click a drive > Click Properties > Hardware Tab
where it shows "All Disk Drives: " the Raptor is actually listed there. But, again, I can't access it. From top to bottom the order is Raptor, EIDE Drive, Floppy, CD-RW

Raptor properties are:

Manufacturer: (Standard disk drives)
Location: Location 0 (Primary ATA Channel)
Device Status: This device is working properly.

Primary HDD (EIDE) properties:

Manufacturer: (Standard disk drives)
Location: Location 0 (0)
Device Status: This device is working properly.



This drive is OEM so could this be a driver issue?

My System:

Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus
Core 2 E6600
CORSAIR XMS2 2GB
GeForce 8800GTS 640MB
Prim. HDD: 80Gig EIDE
Sec. HDD: 74Gig Raptor
600W PSU
XP Home Edition

 

[sisq0kidd]

Go to disk management and see if you can format the drive there.

 

[daveybrat]

Right click on My computer

Then click manage

Click on Disk Management

on the right side click on the new hard drive which should say disk 1 (disk 0 should be c drive)

It should say unallocated space and about 69GB free. Right click on that and say create partition and follow through that. When done it will be partitioned and installed and then show up under my computer.