New Slave Hard Drive

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Zach

Hey, I just moved my 80gb HD from my old computer where
it was also a slave and worked fine. I put it in my new
computer and it finds it in the device manager but not on
My Computer. I've checked the pins, BIOS, and cables at
least 100 times with no answer. I've also tried to
assign a drive letter and when I right click on the
drive, assign drive letter is gray.I also called Western
Digital and they told me to call Microsoft which I've
found is quite hard to do. How can I make my drive show
up without formating the drive. Please help! Thanks
Zach
 
Start, Run, type compmgmt.msc, hit OK, Disk Management,
right-click on the drive, assign it a drive letter . . .

Good Luck !
 
Hi,

Try this way

right click My Computer/Manage/ double click disk management
In the lower right pane, you should see disk 0 and disk 1
Right click on disk 1, can you select initialize drive
If yes, select it and click OK
Go back to My Computer, can you see the drive and get access to it
If yes, back to disk management again
Now, right click on the drive volume, can you select change drive name and path
If yes, assign a drive letter and click OK

Hope it helps

Pete


----- Zach wrote: ----

Hey, I just moved my 80gb HD from my old computer where
it was also a slave and worked fine. I put it in my new
computer and it finds it in the device manager but not on
My Computer. I've checked the pins, BIOS, and cables at
least 100 times with no answer. I've also tried to
assign a drive letter and when I right click on the
drive, assign drive letter is gray.I also called Western
Digital and they told me to call Microsoft which I've
found is quite hard to do. How can I make my drive show
up without formating the drive. Please help! Thank
Zac
 
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