HDD trouble

[san21893]

Okay so i finished my build and it has two hard drives, 80gb barracuda, and 320gb barracuda, i installed my OS (Windows XP) on the 80gb, it gave me a choice between the two drives so it is plugged in. But when i click on the my computer icon, the bigger hard drive doesn't show up. Ideas?

 

[Ronnie]

go into device manager and make sure it sees the hard drive

 

[b1gapl]

You have to format it first.

Go to control panel > administrative tools > computer management > disk management > and then right click on the 320gb hard drive (which ever the letter is), and select format. After that, it should show up, in My Computer.

 

[san21893]

Yeah lol i picked it up before i saw that, i had to do the same w/ my external a couple months ago, it was unallocated. I did a quick format and its NTFS, whats the major difference between NTFS and FAT. I heard NTFS is better. Thanks, b1gapl u deserve alot of credit u helped me ALOT today.

 

[b1gapl]

The main difference between NTFS and FAT, is that NTFS can handle much larger files, like a 2GB file.