new drive not detected?

[neil27]

Hi all

Went to replace my slave drive today with a larger one (seagate 300gb) but windows refuses to show it

It has been detected in the bios! and when i go into my Hardware settings in my computer it is also showning there....I can unstall and reinstall the device! but it still dosnt show up in the main "my computer" window....just shows the 2 partions of my master drive.

Im running XP

Anyone shed some light???

Edit

There both IDEs on the same cable

 

[Katoom]

Has it been formatted?

 

[brendy]

Hi all

Went to replace my slave drive today with a larger one (seagate 300gb) but windows refuses to show it

It has been detected in the bios! and when i go into my Hardware settings in my computer it is also showning there....I can unstall and reinstall the device! but it still dosnt show up in the main "my computer" window....just shows the 2 partions of my master drive.

Im running XP

Anyone shed some light???

Edit

There both IDEs on the same cable

go into admin tools and disk management, you need to give the drive a drive letter and format it.

 

[Father Ted]

Have you been in to disk manager yet and partitined the drive? It's not going to show until it's been partitioned and formatted.

 

[neil27]

NO.......What a numpty! cant believe I forgot to do that


Must be all that Gardening the missis is making me do...

Thanks dude