Extra Hard drive not showing up in my computer?

[Ghtpua]

Hi,

I have a WDC WD25 00KS-00MJB0 SCSI Disk Device and it picks up the hard drive in device manager and add hardware, ... , however, if you go to my computer it does not show up! How is that to be fixed? Thanks!

[gadgetguy]

The drive probably hasn't been formatted before. Go to Start, right-click on My Computer and select Manage. Then open Disk Management. Here you can set up a partition, assign a drive letter and format it.

[handyguy]

What type of computer? Is it XP?

Use partition magic too, also should PREP it for you.

[Bjs]

From what gadgetguy mentioned , it needs to be initialized first , before you can setup partitions and format it .

[Ghtpua]

hiiiii thanks sooo much for all your help everyone. I use winxp pro 32 sorry I should have said that before! Guess what I went to the disk management and everything and it is working now! Thanks sooo much for all the help! I very much apprecaite it! All of you are awesome!

[Ghtpua]

hi,

is it better to format the whole thing or split some of it like partitions or does it matter? Thanks soo much!

[budz]

hi,

is it better to format the whole thing or split some of it like partitions or does it matter? Thanks soo much!

I'd just format the whole hard drive. Just my 2 cents!

[Ghtpua]

thanks sooo much that is what I did, however, was not sure if it mattered

[Ghtpua]

Hi,

It works great thanks sooo much! you all are awesome!