Newly installed drive not visible - help!

Solnyshko · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:23

Hi I have an array of Samsung drives spread across 4 SATA ports. The moment I installed the most recent, one of my existing drives became invisible, and new drive (presumably unformatted) is not appearing either in the 'my computer' directory.

Spinpoint 500GB - 3 partitions (inc OS)
Spinpoint 160GB - 3 partitions

Spinpoint 160GB - 1 Partition - no longer visible
Spinpoint 80GB (newly installed drive) - not visible

Any ideas?

Solnyshko · 28 Feb 2009 at 13:34

Thanks for the speedy reply. In device manager I can see 3 of the 4 physical drives present. The new 80GB is there but not the single partitioned 160GB (see above).

how would i go about initialising/formatting in device manager?

does it matter in which sequence the drives are plugged into the mobo?

Solnyshko · 28 Feb 2009 at 14:42

in XP?

Solnyshko · 28 Feb 2009 at 15:02

ah yes. or run compmgmt.msc

Ok initialised the new 80GB drive, created a primary partition, which i am now formatting.

Disk management does not however see Spinpoint 160GB (1 Partition)