New HDD Not Appearing

[murdocsvan]

i have just bought a new 320GB SATA Harddrive. i plan on copying all the data over to the new HDD from my current 80GB IDE drive. i have installed the raid drivers under windows XP for the new harddrive, and i have started windows XP setup in DOS so that it can install the Drivers on the drive itself. the Drive will still not appear under My Computer. what do i do?

 

[peterhuang913]

Does it appear under Disk Management?

Run>compmgmt.msc

 

[murdocsvan]

Does it appear under Disk Management?

Run>compmgmt.msc

No it doesn't. i dont understand why not though. ive installed the drivers and everything, and checked hardware and it shows the controller and the driver. when i put it in a little bubble popped up in the bottom right.

 

[veedubfreak]

Does it show up in bios? If you plan on using it as the boot device you will have to reinstall anyway. There is no way that i know of to transfer a windows install from one drive to another. What brand of drive is it? When i reinstalled windows monday i put windows on a 30gb partition of my 160 and the other 120gb didnt show up until i ran the seagate disc after installing windows.

 

[murdocsvan]

Does it show up in bios? If you plan on using it as the boot device you will have to reinstall anyway. There is no way that i know of to transfer a windows install from one drive to another. What brand of drive is it? When i reinstalled windows monday i put windows on a 30gb partition of my 160 and the other 120gb didnt show up until i ran the seagate disc after installing windows.

theres special software used for cloning disks.

 

[Kutabare]

You have to create a partition for the new drive. Go to control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management -> disk management and trace your new hard drive and create a new partition for it.

 

[murdocsvan]

You have to create a partition for the new drive. Go to control panel -> administrative tools -> computer management -> disk management and trace your new hard drive and create a new partition for it.

yeah great. i JUST said it isn't in disk management.

 

[murdocsvan]

okay it works now. i found the only way to get it to appear was to run through the XP installation + pressing F6 right at the begginning so it would be able to see the motherboard. then it showed thew 320GB with no partition, so it turns out thats all i needed to do. i assumed that the drive already came with a partition.