Hey gang, I'm really hoping someone here can help me with this annoyance!

Recently, I installed a third hard drive onto my computer. This is an old hard drive I had in a previous computer, and had no problems with it there. However, it's not showing when I go to My Computer where it shows my other two drives, CD-ROM, etc.

When I click on one of my other drives and hit Properties and go to Hardware, it shows up on that list. From there, going to Volume and hitting Populate, it says this:

Disk: Disk 2
Type: Basic
Status: Online
Partition style: Master Boot Record (MBR)
Capacity: 38162 MB
Unallocated space: 38162 MB
Reserved Space: 0
Under where it says "Volume" with Volume and Capacity, there is nothing. No Drive letter or anything.

The BIOS sees it, it says it is a Slave to my DVD-ROM on IDE 1. My other two hard drives are on IDE 0.

I've already tried Updating the Driver, and Uninstalling the driver and letting the system reinstall it by rebooting the PC. Nothing has worked! =/ I don't understand why the system is apparently seeing the drive, but won't assign it a drive letter or allow me to get into it to put anything in it. Can anyone help me with this problem?

If it helps, I'm running Windows XP Home SP2 on an AMD Sempron 3000+ with 704 MB RAM.

Hey there,

You may need to add the drive through computer management.

• Start - Control Panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management
• Click on Disk Management and see whether all drives are showing up.
• You may need to activate the drive through there.

Okay, it isn't showing up there. What do I need to do? I tried having it Refresh and Rescan Disks and it still isn't showing.

I'm wondering...do I maybe need to make my DVD-ROM a slave to the hard drive instead of vice versa like it is now?

Ack! Sorry, it IS showing up (I didn't notice the littler scroll bar at first). Okay, so it's showing there like this:

To the right, it says Disk 2, Basic, 37.27 GB, Online.
To the left of that, the bar at the top is black, and in the white box below that it says 37.27 GB, Unallocated.

What do I need to do from here?

You should be able to right click on it and enable or allocate the space on it.

It shouldn'd bring up any format window, if it does then DO NOT FORMAT.

Okay, from Disk Management I got it figured out! Created a primary partition and then formatted the drive with NTFS. Thanks for all the help guys!!!

Alright good job, thought you wanted to recover info from the drive, guess not LOL.:cheesy:

Good job, come back soon.