this is driving me nutty!!!!

[stud muffin]

I have a 40 GB hard drive and have bought an 80GB to add to it. I have set the 80GB as a slave and it is recognised as a slave on initial start up. However xp does not recognise it and if I boot the PC in DOS and run FDISK, the drive is still not recognised.Please help!!!

Many thanks

JOHN

XP professiona;
athlon xp 1700
256 ram

[swoolgrove]

Hi Stud Muffin, assuming you have it set up correctly, try booting with a XP Boot Disk and running FDISK from there.

Good Luck,

Steve.

[lewis]

Whats the brand of drive?

If its Maxtor, d/l Maxblast 3 .

Most drive manufacturers have a utility to prep a drive for install.