[SOLVED] URGENT HDD Problem... not showing up !!

[Cymru Wolf]

I have just installed a new HDD (2nd) and it isn't showing up in windows.
It does however show up in the Bios and also in Device Manager. Also there are no conflicts and it is says running properly.

Someone did tell me that it needs to be allocated a drive letter,
to be done in Control Panel... but I cannot find where !!

Before I can use it I obviously need to format it, but I cannot even do that if its not showing.
I am really desperate as this is my only day off and I need to get this sorted today !!

 

[dai]

try this
delete it from the device manager
then click on the monitor icon at the top to scan for h/w changes
when windows reinstalls see if you can see it

 

[crjdriver]

The drive must be partitioned and formatted before you can see it in windows. Go to disk management [you can go start>run type diskmgmt.msc] right click on the drive and click create partition. You will need to choose either a primary or an extended. If this is just for data, I would choose extended. Right click again and choose format; format with ntfs and you will see a drive letter and be able to copy files to the drive.

 

[Cymru Wolf]

Cheers guys,

Looks like its going well with your information.

One question though....
Why is it only letting me creating only 4 partitions ?
That would make 4x30Gb partitions !!

 

[Neo4u]

are you sating that you have a 120gig HD that only lets you divide it up into 4*30 gig partitions ?.

if so i had the same problem and ended up having to set the jumpers to cable select and letting windows detect the HD on its own......

 

[crjdriver]

What does disk management show? Are you trying to format as fat32 or ntfs? What os are you using?

 

[Cymru Wolf]

I am using NTFS & Win XP.
It is now set at 4 x 30Gb HDD. Think I'll leave it like that now LMAO

 

[crjdriver]

It only lets you create 4 partitions because that is the limit for one basic disk. You can have 3 primary and one extended partition; inside the extended partition you can create one or more logical drives. So you can have more than just 4 drives; just not more than 4 partitions on one basic physical disk.

 

[Cymru Wolf]

ok will remember that if I decide to reformat any of 'em in the future