Problems with second sata drive

Hi All,
You will have to forgive me for this but hardware aint my thing.


I have an ASUS A8n-SLI deluxe motherboard and decided to add a secondsata drive.

I installed the drive, then booted up my machine.

Windows detected the new hardware and all seemed great until I opened My Computer and found that it was not there.

I had a look under device manager and it indicated that the second drive was there and working correctly.

I then rebooted again and checked the BIOS.
The bios had picked up the seconddrive as the second sata master.

Whats going on ?

Why can't I get to this new drive and why does XP say its there in device manager ?

TIA

What type of cables of you using for the SATA drive?

have you tried going into disk management and initializing the disk ?

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Originally Posted by dark_shadow

have you tried going into disk management and initializing the disk ?

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Or, if it's properly initiated, can you see in disk management if Windows has designated a drive letter?

You need to initialize and format the drive. Right-click on My Computer, choose Manage. Then click on Disk Management. You will see the new drive listed there. Just initialize and format it.