New slave hard disk wont show in My Computer

[Kaneda]

Today I installed a new 80gb slave drive, I guessed this would have been pretty straight foward since I already had a 20gb slave and just replaced it with the new one.

After booting up I found that the drive letter isn't showing in My Computer. I check to make sure that the pins are setup correctly according to the details on the actual drives.

Correct: Master has no pins ( ::::: )

and the slave has the pin on the fourth across from the left: ( :::I: )

I have check to make sure the drive is actually working by setting the new 80gb slave as the only hard disk and master, and it shows up as the master when booting, but doesn't get past there as it is brand new and has no OS.

Any suggestions or help would be apreciated,
Thanks.

P.S.
I am using XP Pro

[Play_The_0dds]

go to control panel, view classic control panel, then double click administative tools, then computer managment, in the main window double click storage, then disk managment. now you will see your new drive listed as new unformated. right click it and select create partition. make it the size you want(if not all) can make as big as you want then create another with the rest or the unpartitioned space. now you can right click the and select format, pick fat32 or ntfs, what ever you like. now they will show up in the my computer screen and you will be able to use it.

[braindead]

What kind of hard drive is it that doesn't use a jumper for the master hd? I've never encountered this. Usually on almost all hard drives I've encountered no jumpers means that it was a single drive. Are you sure the master is no jumper?

[Kaneda]

Thanks for the help, formatting worked

And you were right braindead, I did have the pin set for single drive. Although it ran with it's previous slave drive with no pins selected... Kind of odd...


Does anyone have any idea about my explorer.exe crash loop? I'd elaborate, but it seems more appropriate that I suggest you check out the other thread in this forum if you can, thanks

[timtak]

A big thank you to Play_The_0dds. While the rest of the Internet was recommending cmd fdisk and other arcanery to find my new hard disk, there it was in the computer management settings in the control panel.