Hard disk install

Hi folks. Hope somebody can help with the following
issue. I've recently installed an additional hard drive,
but although it shows up in the cmos, it won't show up in
windows. I set up the old hard drive as master, and the
new as slave. On startup, both hard disks are shown, so I
know it's being recognized on some level, it just doesn't
seem to be available in Explorer or under My Computer.
Any help would be much appreciated.

Until you partition a drive using FDISK it won't be assigned a drive
letter and therefore can't be seen in Explorer. Once partitioned you will
then need to FORMAT the partition so that you can write files to the
drive.

For details of how to fdisk and format see the Microsoft Knowledge Base
article 255867 - "How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to
Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=255867) as well as the file
CLEANHD.TXT which is in the Win 9x folder on the Win Me CD and also as
KB271673 - "Windows Millennium Edition Cleanhd.txt File Contents"
(http://support.microsoft.com?kbid=271673).
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



Tony wrote:

Hi folks. Hope somebody can help with the following
issue. I've recently installed an additional hard drive,
but although it shows up in the cmos, it won't show up in
windows. I set up the old hard drive as master, and the
new as slave. On startup, both hard disks are shown, so I
know it's being recognized on some level, it just doesn't
seem to be available in Explorer or under My Computer.
Any help would be much appreciated.