installed another hard drive,shows up in bios,shows up in device manager,but it does not show up in my computer,any idea anyone
thanks

have you formatted it??

as its new i thought it dosent need formatting
ive put drives in other comps and the picked them up ok

Youll still need to format the drive.

As BIOS and device manager both see the hardware you have set it up correctly (master/Slave etc), it just need formatting before Windows will see it

If you know what you're doing, go ahead, if not let us know and youll be helped through it. :)

only way i thought of doing it was to put the start up disk in and format that drive but the drive has no letter,so the only other way i can think of is to set that drive as my master then start up disk then format that way,
any other info would be great thanks

Probably best way to keep things simple, remove your existing drive IDE cable as you say and leave just your new drive connected so we dont have to mess with drive letters

Boot with a startup disk

When you get the command prompt type FDISK
Choose all the ones (Create partion, use all the available space etc.)

FDISK will perform a couple of scans on your drive then tell you to reboot.

Leave the startup disk in and reboot

This time when the Command prompt comes up type Format c: (where C: is your new drive.)

Let the system format the drive. Then you can shut down, reconfigure your drives (ensure jumpers are set correctly) and start up.

Windows will now see your new drive.

Good luck.

thanks for the info m8 ,i will give it a go
thanks again
got another question if u can help,got another comp for me kids,went to format that but it will not format cos the drive is compressed how can i go about formatting it?

Hello

i think if you use fdisk to delete the active partition then create a new primary dos partition you should be able to format it the same as your first hd

sammy

thanks m8 i will give it a go
thanks