RRH

Guys, I put a spare hdd in one of the office pc's, set to slave, for some extra storage. It's powering up and device manager is acknowledging that its there, but Its not showing up in 'my computer'.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Simon

Sonic'

Is it formatted ?

What size is the drive, and how old is the PC ?

bob269

Is the drive letter conflicting with another device (harddrive, usbpen, network drive, cd/dvd etc) ?

RRH

It's a 300gig Maxtor, PC is about 12 months old. No conflicts as far as I can ascertain.

Whats the easiest way to format it?

RedScoob

Disk manager under "Administrative tools/ Computer management" in the Control panel. Select the physical disk and look at the options for formatting...

PeteBrant

Go into Disk Mangement and do everything from there.

How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP

Fizz

iTrader: (1)

go into controll panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk management and see if you can see it there.. you can then format it in there...

RRH

Sorted, thanks guys. Should have realised it wasn't formatted.

Sonic'