Installed drive not showing up, but is in the device manager!

[omaha]

Hi, i just bought a new seagate 7200.11, and installed it. Hooked it up to my A8n sli deluxe, and windows found it, and installed it (or so i thought!)

unfortunately,, the drive does not show up on my desktop. It is, however, showing up in the device manager.

Does anybody have any idea what on earth, I am doing wrong?

 

[Tethir]

I have a similar issue after slipstreaming XP with Sata drivers. Hopefully there's a solution out there. If I find out anything, I'll let you know.

 

[Zorg]

Hi, i just bought a new seagate 7200.11, and installed it. Hooked it up to my A8n sli deluxe, and windows found it, and installed it (or so i thought!)

unfortunately,, the drive does not show up on my desktop. It is, however, showing up in the device manager.

Does anybody have any idea what on earth, I am doing wrong?

Right click on "My Computer" click on "Manage" -> "Disk Management". Right click the drive and initialize it. Then partition and format.

 

[Tethir]

Oh right, that should do it. Somehow the word "NEW" past by me. Any ideas what to do if the HD has data on it?

 

[Zorg]

What are your specifics.

 

[Tethir]

First off, I feel kind of bad robbing omaha of his post. So yeah, I have a post <HD recognized but "unallocated"> a couple posts below omaha's post.

 

[Zorg]

Omaha's question was answered. If you would feel better you can start a new thread.

You installed the SATA slipstreamed XP onto this drive, or is this a second drive?

 

[Tethir]

I started one before... Again, it is about 4 posts under Omaha's post...

It is here: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/245322-32-recognized-unallocated

and no, I didn't slipstreamed into that HD. It is a separate one.

 

[omaha]

Problem solved! many thanks guys!