drive not recognized by windows kah 10/14/2008 7:27:02 PM Running win xp pro and have a WD 80 GB hard drive for my primary drive. Just added a WD 250GB hard drive for storage. Jumpers for the 80gb are set as master and the 250gb is set as slave. Bios recognizes both drives but windows does not. How do I get windows to recognize the new drive so that I can format it and begin to use it. Thanks -- kah

Re: drive not recognized by windows "Don Phillipson" <e925[ at ]SPAMBLOCK.ncf.ca> 10/14/2008 7:31:29 PM "kah" <kah[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9D88DD05-9DAD-4E5A-8467-EB06AB56EE76[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Running win xp pro and have a WD 80 GB hard drive for my primary drive. Just > added a WD 250GB hard drive for storage. Jumpers for the 80gb are set as > master and the 250gb is set as slave. Bios recognizes both drives but > windows does not. How do I get windows to recognize the new drive so that I > can format it and begin to use it. Thanks You may need first to partition the new HDD with FDISK (probably as NTFS), then use FDISK to create one or more logica drives in that partition, then FORMAT the new drive(s.) Windows Help system ought to have some clues for you. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada)

Re: drive not recognized by windows Roy Smith <rasmith1959[ at ]yahoo.com> 10/14/2008 7:54:46 PM kah wrote: [Quoted Text] > Running win xp pro and have a WD 80 GB hard drive for my primary drive. Just > added a WD 250GB hard drive for storage. Jumpers for the 80gb are set as > master and the 250gb is set as slave. Bios recognizes both drives but > windows does not. How do I get windows to recognize the new drive so that I > can format it and begin to use it. Thanks Right click on My Computer, either the desktop icon (if you have one). or on the Start menu. In the pop-up menu select the Manage menu item, and when the Computer Management window opens click on Disk Management. Does your new drive appear there? If so, you can then set up a partition and format the drive and be able to use it. -- Roy Smith I use Firefox because I want to use software that complies with Web standards. See <http://www.mozilla.org/>.

Re: drive not recognized by windows "DL" <address[ at ]invalid> 10/15/2008 8:25:59 AM Use Disk Management to prepare the disk "kah" <kah[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:9D88DD05-9DAD-4E5A-8467-EB06AB56EE76[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Running win xp pro and have a WD 80 GB hard drive for my primary drive. > Just > added a WD 250GB hard drive for storage. Jumpers for the 80gb are set as > master and the 250gb is set as slave. Bios recognizes both drives but > windows does not. How do I get windows to recognize the new drive so that > I > can format it and begin to use it. Thanks > -- > kah