[fadingtaillights]

Hi everyone!

I have purchased a new hard drive to add to my system. After connecting the drive, it is showing in my device manager, but not in 'my computer' When I populate the 'volumes' field in the device manager properties, it says the type is unknown, the status is not initialized, and the partition style is not applicable.

Im running a windows xp system. I currently have an 80gb C drive, a 300gb back up drive, and I have just purchased a 1tb drive

All 3 drives are internal. the c drive and the new drive are connected on sata.

any ideas whats wrong? any help and suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Thanks!

[Elvandil]

It is not partitioned, formatted, or initialized.

Go to Disk Management and create a volume or 2.

Right-click Computer > Manage > Disk Management.

[fadingtaillights]

Thanks a million Elvandil!!!

[Elvandil]

Wow! An easy one for once!

I take it it worked. Thanks for following up.