Help needed in setting up new serial ATA drive

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Lionel Chin

I just bought and plugged my new Maxtor serial ATA drive
into my WinXP home system. The BIOS and WinXP seemed to
have detected it fine except for a few minor points with
WinXP.

My D:, E: and G: letters are used up by my two CD writers
and single raid 0 drive respectively. But the first time
I booted up after plugging in the new serial ATA, a
report from the bottom right task tray said "New disk D:
detected".

However, when I try to look for it under Windows
Explorer, it does not appear(D: is still my CD writer).
But it does under the list of HDD drives in control panel-
system. I've been trying to find a way to make it visible
in Windows Explorer to format it so that it is usable,
but I can't.

Can someone help? Thanks a great deal in advance!
 
Lionel Chin said:
I just bought and plugged my new Maxtor serial ATA drive
into my WinXP home system. The BIOS and WinXP seemed to
have detected it fine except for a few minor points with
WinXP.

My D:, E: and G: letters are used up by my two CD writers
and single raid 0 drive respectively. But the first time
I booted up after plugging in the new serial ATA, a
report from the bottom right task tray said "New disk D:
detected".

However, when I try to look for it under Windows
Explorer, it does not appear(D: is still my CD writer).
But it does under the list of HDD drives in control panel-
system. I've been trying to find a way to make it visible
in Windows Explorer to format it so that it is usable,
but I can't.

Can someone help? Thanks a great deal in advance!
Click to expand...

Start -> Help and Support
"Disk Management"

You need to get into disk manager and initialize the hard drive.
 
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