New Internal SATA Hard Drive not recognized

los_toros · #1 06-20-2007, 10:37 AM

Plopped in a new 500GB Seagate SATA hard drive and connected it up. The RAID controller recognizes it and says it is not part of a RAID array. System setup shows that it is on and active.

However, Windows XP does not show the new disk in My Computer. I can see it present in the Device Manager, but cannot figure out how to access it through My Computer.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Meech · #2 06-20-2007, 11:02 AM

Does it show up in disk management?

los_toros · #3 06-20-2007, 11:17 AM

It seems as if the drive wasn't automatically initialized by Windows so I'm formatting now. All should be well when it's done.

Thanks!

Bremen · #4 06-20-2007, 11:54 AM

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It seems as if the drive wasn't automatically initialized by Windows so I'm formatting now. All should be well when it's done.

Thanks!

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Took me forever to figure that out the first time. Definitly more than the 40 minutes between your posts :0)

Freakin · #5 06-20-2007, 12:22 PM

For anyone else who has this problem, it's very common.

Right-click My computer-->Manage-->Disk Management

It *should* automatically come up and say there is a new drive. If not, you'll be able to see the new drive with no partitions created on it. You can click the big white space to the right of the drive description and click New Partition and create a partition and format it.

NTFS is the filesystem recommended when you format a new partition on WinXP/Vista.