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XP Home not seeing HD

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orogeny

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I just built a new computer with the following specs:

AMD 64x2 5200+
ECS KA3 MVP
Powercolor X1950 Pro 256mb
Antec True Power Trio 550W PSU
2 gb GSkill DDR2-800 (1 stick)
320 gb Western Digital HD
80 gb Seagate HD
Samsung cd/DVD burner
Windows XP Home (SP2)

The Seagate is my c: drive and there is no problem there.

The WD shows up in my BIOS as a slave on SATA3 but is not recognized in Windows. How do I get Windows to see that drive? I don't have it jumpered as a slave, so I'm not sure why it is showing up that way, but would setting the drive as a master with the jumper make a difference? Why would the drive show up in the BIOS but not in Windows?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Tim
 
Is the drive formatted...? Go to the Device Manager and see if it's there - then format it.

Or use the WD utility to prepare a "new drive".

Good luck!
 
You can even activate the drive and create a partition from windows' disk management options, no need for the WD utility.
 
Thanks JustaGeek and nerp.

The drive is recognized now, although I have no idea why. I rebooted several times and it finally showed up. I partitioned and formatted it when I installed windows, so the fact that it wasn't recognized has me perplexed.

Well, as long as it is working, I'm not going to worry about why it wasn't before.

Thanks again for your help.

Tim
 
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