Hard drive won't show up!!

[EricB]

start, control panel, admin tools, computer management

if it show up on your bios it will show up there

click on the drive, it will tell you what you need to do to make the drive recognizable

try this. I suspect your drive needs to be formatted as a logical partition

 

[gsteg]

how do i partition it as a logical partition? i see it in my BIOS, but it won't show up on my computer.

i'll try to set the boot on it.

 

[EricB]

does it show up in computer management?

 

[ekÆsine]

you said it's being detected in bios. right click my computer, select manage. in the window select storage> disk management. right click on the new drive and make a partition. it doesn't matter if you make a primary or logical drive as he suggested. either will work. you can also just get in the control panel and run the add new harware wizard.

 

[gsteg]

ok the drive does not show up in the computer/disk management

 

[intercodes]

gsteg,

And one simple question.....

Are both the drives having same type of partition on it?. If your 80Gb HDD is a fat32 and you r trying to connect the 200GB as a ntfs partition, its more likely to be your problem.....

 

[gsteg]

hrm..that might be a problem. my 80GB is FAT32, but my 200GB is NTFS i think . the only problem is that i can't partition the 200gb as a FAT32, at least not with the software that was provided.

how would i make it a Fat32?

 

[intercodes]

gsteg,

Get Partition magic. Itll convert your drives...

 

[gsteg]

ok now the 200gb is a FAT32.

still doesn't show up in windows

 

[intercodes]

gsteg,

Few suggestions...

Get an update for BIOS. Check this link too..
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;303013

Recheck the jumpers or try to remove your CD-ROM cable and try connecting your HDD.

In disk managment in windows XP, rescan the disk 's [there 'll be an option in the disk managment to rescan ] .