My 40GB Won't Visible

[aznxtreme]

Hi! How Come My Hard Drive Won't Visible To me i have set it as a slave or master it still won't visible, the system detect to hard drive but i dun see anything, (there is no volume lable) on the HD So Help

 

[mharvey5]

What operating systems are you using..

If it's Windows 2000 or XP, have you gone into drive management and formated the drive and assigned it a drive id? If it's not formated, you won't be able to see it other than perhaps in your BIOS on booting saying that it sees a Maxtor (WDxxx, or whatever brand drive it is and what device is it, (Primary Master, Slave, etc).

 

[wizzard2k2]

In Win2k or XP, the drive needs to be 'initialized' first...go into drive management (Administrative Tools - Computer Management, in the right pane click on Disk Management). In the left pane, right click on the drive you want to work with (where it names the disk 0 or 1) and click on initialize drive. Once the drive has been initialized, you can do whatever you need to do to it (i.e. partition and/or format)

 

[aznxtreme]

Thanks ALots wizzard2k2 It Really Work, The HD Is Visible Now Thanks For YOur Help