Second Hard Drive Not Shown

[wholo5]

I have added a second hard drive. I have formatted and partitioned. Problem now it is not shown in My Computer or Windows Exp. It IS shown everywhere else. Bios, Device Mgr. Disk Management. What do I need to do to have it recognized in My Computer and Windows Exp? I have Asus A7N8X mobo, Windows XP. Note this is an old hard drive.

[soulja]

did it set the pins to be slave

[wholo5]

Yes, pins set as Master and primary slave. The hard drive I added is an old Seagate 20GB. The master is Maxtor 40GB.

[soulja]

u was spose to partion then format after. did u do it in that order?

[wholo5]

Yes I did. IT was partitioned and formatted and assigned F drive. It shows up everywhere except My Computer and Windows Exp. It even shows up in Diskkeeper Lite.

[soulja]

hmm...sounds like u got everything in shape but... u sure u have the pins correct and read the manual, thats all i can think of at this point,

[Telexen]

Could you provide us with a screenshot of Disk Management?

What does it do when you go to Windows Explorer and type F:\ in the location bar?

[Chuckiechan]

Do you mean it isn't showing up in the directory tree, AKA Explorer?

Save a file to it and see if you can retreive it from Start/documents/...

[wholo5]

OK soulja, thanks for the replies. I`ll keep working on it. I`ll check pin settings again to be sure. I`ve only opened the case about 400 times today.LOL Thanks again!

[soulja]

he means in dos and stuff he can see the drive but in windows (my computer) not shown