Second Hard Drive query

aly051 · 3 Nov 2007 at 13:55

I have two hard drives in my PC

My main a 250GB Western Digital SATAII + a 160GB Seagate SATAII

My 160GB appears in the BIOS but not in Windows, the simple question (or I hope it is)

How do I make it appear?

Hope someone can help me cheers.

semi-pro waster · 3 Nov 2007 at 18:41

Go into Drive Management (Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Drive Management) then assign a drive letter and you might need to format it as well.

Abz · 3 Nov 2007 at 21:37

Yeah I would guess its not formatted. Did you have data on it? sometimes the drive gets crupted and only fixed when formatted

aly051 · 3 Nov 2007 at 22:16

The hard drive has never been Formated. It is new straight out the box, is this my problem?

I opened what you told me, not sure if I formatted it, how do I allocate a Drive Letter.

Also I've always assumed the higher Cache Memory a hard drive has the better. My Western Digital is 16mb but scores a Vista score of 5.4 which I think is low.

My Maxtor (which I thought was a segate) is 8mb but could it still potentially be better than my 250GB.

Thanks for this help btw

liam8582007 · 3 Nov 2007 at 22:19

Yep, it needs formatting before you can use it.

Liam

Abz · 3 Nov 2007 at 22:33

once you format it, it will assign letter auto