New hard disk appears in BIOS and Device Manager, not under My Computer

[Shane]

Hey guys and gals,
I have a dell system that I just installed a second HD.
It is a 120gb hd on a IDE controller. The Primary hd is a
40gb on a scsi controller.

On the IDE controller I also have a cd drive player. So
the current configuration is the primary drive is a scsi
hd and on the IDE controller it's a Western Digital 120 hd
set to primary with the cd drive set as the (slave).

In the OS which is XP Professional, I can navigate to it
through explorer and see it in disk management and
everywhere else except MY Computer.

So far, I've updated the Bio, reinstalled the SP's and
MSOFT updates, verified jumper setting and reconfigure the
HD setup in the system itself.

Can any of you my fello IS brothers and sisters give me
some suggestion on fixing this issue?

Thanks,

S. Hare
..

 

[Gerry]

IDE and SCSI hard drives don't like to play together.
Since your SCSI is your primary boot drive. Configure the
IDE drive as a slave as well.

 

[root]

IDE and SCSI hard drives don't like to play together.

That's completely false.

 

[root]

Hey guys and gals,
I have a dell system that I just installed a second HD.
It is a 120gb hd on a IDE controller. The Primary hd is a
40gb on a scsi controller.

On the IDE controller I also have a cd drive player. So
the current configuration is the primary drive is a scsi
hd and on the IDE controller it's a Western Digital 120 hd
set to primary with the cd drive set as the (slave).

In the OS which is XP Professional, I can navigate to it
through explorer and see it in disk management and
everywhere else except MY Computer.

So far, I've updated the Bio, reinstalled the SP's and
MSOFT updates, verified jumper setting and reconfigure the
HD setup in the system itself.

Can any of you my fello IS brothers and sisters give me
some suggestion on fixing this issue?

You have to go into Computer Management - Disk Managment then partition and
format the HD.