New second HDD not showing up in Windows

brianon

I just installed a new Samsung HD501LJ 500G SATA.

It shows up in the bios fine and also when I do a windows find new hardware it shows up as already installed and device manager says it is running fine.

However, I can't see it in explorer

Any ideas. I have WinXP SP2 installed.

Ginger

Right click on My Computer and click Manager
CLick Disk Management

You will see your new drive unformatted and unpartitioned

Partition it (split into disks for windows) as you need eg if it was 300GB you might want 2 150 or 1 100 and 1 200 gb drives

Right click on the right pane and click create partition and select the amount in megabytes and create it

See these for more details

Easier: http://www.d-silence.com/feature.php?id=246

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/dm_create_partitions.mspx?mfr=true

awhir

good 1 ginger that should do it ,you can also use seagate tools to.

brianon

Thats great. Thanks Ginger. I will try that when I get home. Cheers mate.

brianon

uh oh. The disk isn't showing up under Disk Management
awhir...you say to use seagate tools. But its a samsung disk!?

brianon

ooops. Now I see it