How do I get my computer to notice a new installed hardrive?

I bought a new hardrive, this is my set up.





2 IDE ports


primary


C: = XP


F: =slave





secondary


DVD


*new hardrive*





the startup recognizes it, but windows doesn't... am I missing something?

How do I get my computer to notice a new installed hardrive?
make sure your jumper settings on the drive are set correctly





go into your bios setup at boot up time and make sure that the HD is showing


to get into bios you hit the key that it says to hit in order to get into setup, tap it once a second or hair faster than that til it goes into setup





usually its F1 that gets you into Bios





but on some bios versions it is the tab key





if those two are good then go to control panel and device manager and make sure the Hd shows up in the list of hardware and that theres no exclamation mark or anything like that next to it





if so then theres a problem, also if it doesnt show up in the hardware list at all





checking jumper setting is the first thing to check though,








if it was my system i would put the new HD on the primary IDE cable and set the jumper to slave setting





and go into Bios setup and set it to boot first if it has your OS on it and if not then make it second or third or fourth boot


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Reply:If there are drivers for them. They need to be installed. Also they need to be formatted to a filing system. I recommend FAT32, but its preference.
Reply:i suggest that you use the cd that the hardrive came with
Reply:Go to control panel, computer administration, disk management.





You should see your new hard drive on the lower right hand side. It is most probably not formatted/initialized.





Right click over the drive and select format/import etc. You will want to partition the drive also.
Reply:When you say that Windows doesn't recognize it, have you tried through the Disk Management tool? Go to Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management and select Disk Management. It may start a wizard or just show the drive as unformatted space that you can format.
Reply:maybe it is a plug and play device..if it is, windows will automatically install it to your computer.
Reply:You might try add new hardware in the control panel





check you cables