Quick replies needed. New 2nd Sata drive not detected in my computer

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I've just installed my new WD 160gb SataII drive after my old Maxtor 120gb IDE died last week. On the first boot i noticed it flash up in the bios during boot so all's good so far. Once in windows it displayed the obligritory new hardware icon in the sys tray and faded. Decided to go to My computer and it's not there. I've gone into disk management and i have it displayed like so...



How do i initialise the dive? Seems as though a lot of options in DISKMGMT are greyed out :(

Thx in advance for your help.
 
bliss said:
I've just installed my new WD 160gb SataII drive after my old Maxtor 120gb IDE died last week. On the first boot i noticed it flash up in the bios during boot so all's good so far. Once in windows it displayed the obligritory new hardware icon in the sys tray and faded. Decided to go to My computer and it's not there. I've gone into disk management and i have it displayed like so...



How do i initialise the dive? Seems as though a lot of options in DISKMGMT are greyed out :(

Thx in advance for your help.

Doh! i was clicking on the right side of the drive which only gave properties. Clicking the grey box to the left side and then initialise drive. LOL I'm stupid sometimes.
 
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