New HD in XP not seen

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Bob Hughes

I just installed a 500GB sata Hard drive on my XP machine. The bios
recognizes it. The device manager shows 2 HD
1. WDC WD2500JS-60NCB1,
2. WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0
The Device manager shows both are working properly. #1 device usage as
blank, #2 shows Device usage "Use this device (enabled)

It is HD 2 that I cannot see. In the old days I would have had to fdisk it
first. Is this still true? Or is there something else I must do?

Bob
 
Bob Hughes said:
I just installed a 500GB sata Hard drive on my XP machine. The bios
recognizes it. The device manager shows 2 HD
1. WDC WD2500JS-60NCB1,
2. WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0
The Device manager shows both are working properly. #1 device usage as
blank, #2 shows Device usage "Use this device (enabled)

It is HD 2 that I cannot see. In the old days I would have had to fdisk it
first. Is this still true? Or is there something else I must do?

Bob
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you need to use disk management to partition and format the drive
 
Bob said:
I just installed a 500GB sata Hard drive on my XP machine. The bios
recognizes it. The device manager shows 2 HD
1. WDC WD2500JS-60NCB1,
2. WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0
The Device manager shows both are working properly. #1 device usage as
blank, #2 shows Device usage "Use this device (enabled)

It is HD 2 that I cannot see. In the old days I would have had to fdisk it
first. Is this still true? Or is there something else I must do?

Bob
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Disk Management would be a good place to look for a new drive.
Sample picture here.

http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/Disk_Management_XP.gif

Paul
 
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