Hard Drive not in "MY COMPUTER"

[stall74]

I have installed a seagate 7200.7 40Gb hard drive for a back-up (slave) drive, I have put in it the middle (grey plug) of the 80, 40 pins IDE cable, taken out the jumper so it runs as a slave. It registers with device manager and it is enabled, but it doesn't show up in the MY COMPUTER, so I cant open it and use it in anyway. Please help.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Is the drive new? If so you need to go into "Disk Management" and initialize the disk, partition it, and format it.

Right click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management

 

[stall74]

thank you for quick reply, this is a bit embarrising as Im not sure were disc management is please?

 

[stall74]

Oh sorry I just read full message, thank you so much for your help.

 

[voyagerfan99]

Oh sorry I just read full message, thank you so much for your help.

Were you successfully able to get the drive working?

 

[stall74]

Im away from the pc at the moment and will try it in the next few days and will get back to you.
Thanks again for your help.