New hard drive not showing up in My Computer 1

[Magnus53]

Hey everyone

Just got a 2nd hard drive yesterday. A Samsung 160 GB. I installed it as a slave and it is being found by the BIOS. However when I go into My Computer and look for it I can't find it there. I also can't see in in the harddrive sections of Computer Manager. I can however see it in the device manager.

I unistalled and rebooted several times to no avail.

Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks

 

[smah]

Windows won't assign a letter until it's partitioned & formatted. It will probably show in disk management as unpartitioned space. If using Win2000 or XP - Start, Run, diskmgmt.msc. A word of warning - be very careful to make sure that you are working with the correct drive & parttion.

 

[Magnus53]

Thanks Smash, it does show up there. The only problem is that is shows up as 131 GB


I'm running Win 2k and a Asus A7N8K Delux motherboard.

Should I update my bios?

thanks

 

[smah]

It sounds like it, but are you sure about that model number? I can't seem to find it on the ASUS web site.

 

[Magnus53]

Yeah that was my mistake

It's a Asus A7N8X Deluxe

I did flash the Bios, going to 1008 from 1005. That didn't seem to change anything.

I've gone to the Samsung site and they said I needed to add a value to the registry to support 48 LBA. So I've just did that, and it seems to work now.


Thanks for the help Smash.

 

[paparazi]

Magnus53
You need the latest Microsoft service pack for Windows 2000 installing (not sure what W2K is up to, SP4?)

Martin


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