New HDD Problem

[Gruce]

I recently installed a new HDD and im having some problems.

I have a 60 Gig HDD at the moment partitioned into C (20) and D (40). I installed a 80 Gig HDD as a slave yesterday and everything seems to work fine. The drive is listed in boot up and in device manager it says it is working properly. However in My Computer I can't see the thing, just my regualr 2 drives (one partitioned). Any idea what I can do to make this appear? Also I have tried things like saving files to E, but no luck as E is still a Cd rom. Thanks in advance.

Gruce

[Ciaran]

It sounds like you need to format the HDD.

If your running XP go to Control Panel/Performance and Maintenance/Administrative Tools/Computer Managment/Disk Managment. Your new HDD should be listed there, right click on it, then format and it should show up in My Computer once it finishes.

[Gruce]

Thank you so much, I love you! Don't get any ideas though.

Everything is sorted now. I was pretty sure that I needed to format it but had no clue how. I was thinking dos format E but that was still listed as CD. Thanks so much.

Gruce

[yashiro]

Nice to see you got it sorted.

XP has all kinds of ****ey pop up wizards for everything, but not for this!
The amount of times this issue gets people is astonishing.

[Ciaran]

It got me the first time. ft: