Another harddrive problem

[Spongebob]

I'm tring to add a slave drive to a windows XP machine. Problem is the drive shows up in Cmos and in the Device manager in Windows XP but its not listed under my compuer. It did this in 2 systems. All the jumpers are set correctly. What can I do to troubleshoot this?

[minibubba]

it's either a partition that windows doesn't recognize, not formated, or hidden

go to control panel/Admin. Tools/Comp. Management

click on disk manage. and find your hdd and figure out from there why it's not showing up

[amd_man2005]

go into Control Panel> Admin Tools > Disk Management and assign a drive letter, or uninstall the Primary IDE channel and reboot

[amd_man2005]

it's either a partition that windows , not formated,

My Computer shows unformatted drives, if its partitioned

[minibubba]

My Computer shows unformatted drives, if its partitioned

I've had them not show up before. But then again, the partitions were faulty as well...

[amd_man2005]

Click on that spot where it says unallocated and create a Partition/Partitions

[Spongebob]

Click on that spot where it says unallocated and create a Partition/Partitions

OK thanks, I just figured it out as I deleted the post above you.:)

I have never had that happen before. What cuased that drive to do that anyway?

[amd_man2005]

If you get a new drive, you must format/partition it. If you deleted the partition etc it does that

[Spongebob]

If you get a new drive, you must format/partition it. If you deleted the partition etc it does that

It's not a new drive and I didn't think I deleted a partition, unless I did it when I formatted and reistalled Windows on the Master drive.:confused:
Well anyway thanks again for the help. Everything is good now.:)