Problem with new slave drive

hi there,
I just bough a new Hitachi 320gb drive that i will use as a slave drive. I placed the 'jumpers' correct i think, 1st pins nearest the power cable on c: and second set of pins from the left of power cable on new slave drive. And i have the long ide cable with the c: at the very end connector and the new drive in the middle connector.
My BIOS showed the new drive, and in device manager it shows the new drive, but in My Computer and Computer Management/ Disk manager it does not show?


Anyone any ideas?

 

Have you formatted it?

Paul

 

Thanks for the reply

How would i go about formatting it?
its not showing in my computer or disk management.

 

You could throw in your Windows disk, boot from it, and use it to format but not install. Or download free utilities to format a drive. You will do all this without booting to Windows. I will look for some ways for you to do this and post back.

Cheers,

Paul

 

You have to create partitions, before you format.

Look here

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=149585

 

True, I should remember that not everyone may know to do this prior. Although if using the Windows disk, it's fairly obvious.

Paul