Attaching a new Hard Drive

[Paul]

Hello, can anyone offer assistance? I have a problem. When
attaching a new disk drive, I experience the following
symptom, I can see the drive on my computer, however when
you double click for properties, you get an error code"
D:\ is not accessible" and "the device is not connected"

thanks

 

[Matthew Mucker [MSFT]]

Did you partition and format the drive?

You need to do that first. Right click My Computer, select Manage, and go
into Disk Management.

-Matt