How to format new external HDD in Vista?

[Psilonaught]

I have vista installed and have been using an external 200GB HDD for storage with it just fine.

The problem is I just installed another external hdd (IDE) and this new one doesn't show as a drive in Vista.

I went into the install menu for Vista with the USB drive turned on, and the format section recognised both my main HDD and the external one, but the external one says zero space allocated, and can't format the drive as it says vista doesn't support usb/firewire drives, please load a driver.

Can i format the HDD inside Vista (it does appear in the device manager ok)??

 

[Psilonaught]

many thanks, it's sorted now. I must say, I thought Vista was supposed to be clever, I would never have guessed that series of steps unless someone had told me

sigh, but can't these things just "work"

thanks again matey