200 Gig Disk not recognised in My Computer

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I have installed a Maxtor 200gig disk as a secondary drive. The BIOS
recognises the disk and size and is shown in the disk manager (diskmgmt.msc)
as drive 1 - but it says "not initialised."
However, it does not show as Drive D (or anything else) on the "my computer"
screen.
The system has been updated to SP2, the bios has been flashed, ...please help!

 

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You need to partition and format the drive.

Use disk manager to partition and format the drive(s)

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"Woodshavings" <Woodshavings@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:89C0EFE7-6377-443C-BD51-3F8885717147@microsoft.com...
> I have installed a Maxtor 200gig disk as a secondary drive. The BIOS
> recognises the disk and size and is shown in the disk manager
(diskmgmt.msc)
> as drive 1 - but it says "not initialised."
> However, it does not show as Drive D (or anything else) on the "my
computer"
> screen.
> The system has been updated to SP2, the bios has been flashed, ...please
help!

 

[miked]

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how do u have it hooked up to the EIDE channels? How do you have every drive
hooked up and tell me the master/slave config
Mike D
"Woodshavings" <Woodshavings@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:89C0EFE7-6377-443C-BD51-3F8885717147@microsoft.com...
>I have installed a Maxtor 200gig disk as a secondary drive. The BIOS
> recognises the disk and size and is shown in the disk manager
> (diskmgmt.msc)
> as drive 1 - but it says "not initialised."
> However, it does not show as Drive D (or anything else) on the "my
> computer"
> screen.
> The system has been updated to SP2, the bios has been flashed, ...please
> help!

 

[Neil]

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You should be able to partition the drive and format in disk management,
then allocate a drive letter if it doesn't do it its self when the format is
finished.
Neil
"Woodshavings" <Woodshavings@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:89C0EFE7-6377-443C-BD51-3F8885717147@microsoft.com...
>I have installed a Maxtor 200gig disk as a secondary drive. The BIOS
> recognises the disk and size and is shown in the disk manager
> (diskmgmt.msc)
> as drive 1 - but it says "not initialised."
> However, it does not show as Drive D (or anything else) on the "my
> computer"
> screen.
> The system has been updated to SP2, the bios has been flashed, ...please
> help!

 

[Guest]

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Thanks guys, problem solved

"neil" wrote:

> You should be able to partition the drive and format in disk management,
> then allocate a drive letter if it doesn't do it its self when the format is
> finished.
> Neil
> "Woodshavings" <Woodshavings@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:89C0EFE7-6377-443C-BD51-3F8885717147@microsoft.com...
> >I have installed a Maxtor 200gig disk as a secondary drive. The BIOS
> > recognises the disk and size and is shown in the disk manager
> > (diskmgmt.msc)
> > as drive 1 - but it says "not initialised."
> > However, it does not show as Drive D (or anything else) on the "my
> > computer"
> > screen.
> > The system has been updated to SP2, the bios has been flashed, ...please
> > help!
>
>
>