200 Gig Disk not recognised in My Computer

[Guest]

I have installed a Maxtor 200gig disk as a secondary drive. The BIOS
recognises the disk and size and is shown in the disk manager (diskmgmt.msc)
as drive 1 - but it says "not initialised."
However, it does not show as Drive D (or anything else) on the "my computer"
screen.
The system has been updated to SP2, the bios has been flashed, ...please help!

 

[Jon_Hildrum]

You need to partition and format the drive.

Use disk manager to partition and format the drive(s)

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Jon Hildrum
DTS MVP
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www.hildrum.com

I have installed a Maxtor 200gig disk as a secondary drive. The BIOS
recognises the disk and size and is shown in the disk manager (diskmgmt.msc)
as drive 1 - but it says "not initialised."
However, it does not show as Drive D (or anything else) on the "my computer"
screen.
The system has been updated to SP2, the bios has been flashed, ...please

help!

 

[neil]

You should be able to partition the drive and format in disk management,
then allocate a drive letter if it doesn't do it its self when the format is
finished.
Neil

 

[MikeD]

how do u have it hooked up to the EIDE channels? How do you have every drive
hooked up and tell me the master/slave config
Mike D

 

[Guest]

Thanks guys, problem solved

You should be able to partition the drive and format in disk management,
then allocate a drive letter if it doesn't do it its self when the format is
finished.
Neil