Just installed Maxtor 200gig Bios says it's there windows says not

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Just installed my IDE Maxtor 200gb hardrive Bios read that the hard drive was there but when I go into explore it says I still have 1 hard drive.

Anyone help me out?
 
hds come out of the factory with no partitions defined, so you must create partition/s goto start-->settings-->control panel-->administrative tools-->computer managment-->disk managment
 
Once there, you should see a bar for each of your drives. Do you see all of your hard drives there?
It should say something like-
Disk1
Basic
xxxGB
Online


If you see your hard drive, then you right click on the "unallocated" space and select "new partition" from the menu. That should open up a wizard to guide you through.
 
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