New HD Wont Work

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Klyde

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So im trying to install a 160GB Seagate Barracuda Drive
I followed all the steps from their setup disc and set the drive as slave and my current drive as master and did everything.

I got a screen and it said it was setup and i could begin "enjoying" it.

now my comp works just fine but the drive is not working. I still only have 200mb left on my current drive which needless to say is not enough for anything.

Any ideas on how to get this drive to work?

Edit, the new drive shows up under device manager.
 
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The drive could be formatted wrong (im assuming it isn't showing up in My Computer) that happened to me, i reformatted to FAT32 and it worked.
 
You may have to set the jumper to cable select rather then slave to see the new drive recognised as a logical drive. The same thing happens often with two WD ide type drive where the second won't be seen by Windows on the first. If all went well with partitioning and formatting try the CS setting there.
 
Right click on my computer, pick manage. Open the storage tree and click disk management. The drive will be shown in the right pane at the bottom. Right click on it and pick initialize/partition and it will start the partitioning wizard. It sounds like the seagate utility didn't work.
 
If you originally booted from a floppy to see that done the download or floppy itself may have been bad ending with a mess to clean up. This is one reason why a more experience user will first go for a partitioning tool like Partition Magc or the free Linux tool GParted to avoid going through 3 1/2" headaches.

Cromewell was thinking on the same lines about using the Disk Management tool included in Windows to see the drive partitioned and formatted there. With that tried and if you still see problems with Windows properly detecting the new drive then try the cable select setting. Even upon using a tool like GParted for partitioning for XP or Vista the Disk Management tool is then used for formatting it.

The image at the link here shows one system with 4 hard drives and 2 optical drives when the Disk Management tool is opened up to view the drives installed.

currentpartitionsau2.jpg
 
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