I just put in a hard drive,set it up as a slave,bios and device manager recognize it but can't access it thru MY COMPUTER. my cd rom. has become my E drive,still have C: no D: My jumper settings are correct. I don't get it.
belikemike -1 Junior Poster
Coconut Monkey 40 Inside your PC Team Colleague
Making sure you're logged in with your administrator account, head into Control Panel->Administrative Tools->Computer Management->Disk Management. On the right you should see a list of drives, with your new drive somewhere within (if you have one other disk, it should be labelled Disk 1, with the primary drive called Disk 0). Right click the entry, choose to initialise the drive, and follow the wizard. Then right click again, choose to partition the drive, and set it up according to your partition preference. After that's done (phew), right click the drive once more, and select format.
belikemike -1 Junior Poster
It worked like a charm. Thanks.
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