200GB Hard drive problems

[Chris]

I installed a 200GB hard as a second drive. It is running
as a slave to the 80GB primary drive. The drive was
detected and the drive loaded but it does not show up
under my computer. It does show up under device manager as
a 137GB hard drive but not assigned a letter. I have Win
2000 w/ SP 4 and I have changed the registry editor to
EnableBigLBa to 1. Do I still did to partition the drive
to less than 137 GB?

 

[Wolf Kirchmeir]

I installed a 200GB hard as a second drive. It is running
as a slave to the 80GB primary drive. The drive was
detected and the drive loaded but it does not show up
under my computer. It does show up under device manager as
a 137GB hard drive but not assigned a letter. I have Win
2000 w/ SP 4 and I have changed the registry editor to
EnableBigLBa to 1. Do I still did to partition the drive
to less than 137 GB?

If by "installed" you mean "plugged in," you have not in fact installed the
drive -- that takes partitioning and formatting. The fact that Device Manager
does not show a letter for it means you haven't partitioned and formatted it.
Read the Help in Device Manager on how to these jobs - they're simple enough,
(formatting a 200GB drive will take some time, though.)

In computerese, merely plugging in a device is _not_ the same as installing
it. A lot of people have been caught by this subtle and apparently purely
technical distinction, because some devices are "self installing" via the
plug'n'play protocol. Unfortunately, hard disks aren't plug'n'play.

HTH&GL