Missing HDD?

[Bikerz]

Ok I have a 320gb sata hdd. just got a nice new 500gb sata one. so pluged in hoping for it to be detected and I have 2 hard drives. Well its detected it in device manager and says drivers are installed and working properly. Yet in my computer wont show HDD. what do I need to do?

Cheers

Sheldon

 

[Jokester]

You need to go into the control panel:-

Adminstratative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management

then find the new disk, right click and format it, Windows should then assign it the next drive letter. You can also partition the drive here as well.

Jokester

 

[Bikerz]

cheers mate, found it. I feel a real prat

 

[Matt-Page]

cheers mate, found it. I feel a real prat

Easy mistake to make, and you would be surprised how many do! Also, sometimes even if it is formatted it tries to use an already in use drive letter, such as a USB Key or a mapped network drive. This can be changed on the fly in Disk Manager.