New Hard Drive

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I am hoping someone has the simple answer that I have for some reason
overlooked.

I installed a 2nd Maxtor 80gig 8meg cache HDD recently. This 2nd HDD is
exactly like the first giving me a total of 160gigs of space.

BIOS recognizes both drives. Windows XP however does not assign it a drive
letter. Thus I cannot access it from within Windows.

Any clues / guesses?

All help appreciated.


WIRED

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Thank you aus.


"aus" <aus@aus.net> wrote in message
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> Right click the My Computer icon and select Manage. The select Disk
> Manager. You should see your disk. Right click the free space and create
> partition and then format it when it will assign the drive letter.
>
>
> WIRED wrote:
>> I am hoping someone has the simple answer that I have for some reason
>> overlooked.
>>
>> I installed a 2nd Maxtor 80gig 8meg cache HDD recently. This 2nd HDD is
>> exactly like the first giving me a total of 160gigs of space.
>>
>> BIOS recognizes both drives. Windows XP however does not assign it a
>> drive letter. Thus I cannot access it from within Windows.
>>
>> Any clues / guesses?
>>
>> All help appreciated.
>>
>>
>> WIRED