XP Not Displaying Slave HDD

[ggbroughton]

i have recently installed a secondary HDD into my pc and bios is recogniseing it but my OS isn't the hdd i have installed is a
western digital wd200 ide drive

hopefully this will be obvious to some of you

 

[ggbroughton]

my pc also says: primary ide channel no 80 conductor cable installed during bios startup if thats any help

 

[aford10]

You need to allocate and assign a drive letter for the new hard drive. Right click on my computer/computer, and click manage. Click on disk management. Look in the bottom window for your new hard drive.

 

[ggbroughton]

ok i shall try thanks