I'am having problems with my windows recognizing my drive.

[coasterdude90]

I'am having problems with my windows recognizing my drive. I have a western digital 500gb SATA drive which I'm having problems with the windows system recognizing it. The motherboad I'am using is a EVGA nForce 680i SLi motherboard and I'am running Windows XP Professional.

 

[locky28]

Have you formatted your Hard-Drive?

 

[coasterdude90]

yes I have and I'm trying to run it as a secondary drive.

 

[locky28]

mmmk, so this is the second hard drive you've got plugged into your PC

Is it appearing in disk management?
Right click My Computer>Manage> Then go to disk management

Your first HDD should be DISK 0 and your second should be DISK 1 if it's showing up.

 

[brett_monkey]

Have you checked to see if the hard drive shows up in the Bios? I would look there. Sometimes it needs to be 'activated' in the Bios.

 

[coasterdude90]

The hard drive does show up in the bios and it shows up in the device manager. But it is not showing up in Windows Explorer.

 

[aoe]

Sounds like you just need to format it and assign a drive letter.

As a previous poster said, go into Disk Management:
Right-click My Computer~>Manage Then select 'disk management'

The drive should be shown there. You should then format the drive.

Hope this helps.

 

[coasterdude90]

what would I do if that doesn't work by chance?