Internal WD Hard Drive

I just installed a new seta WD 400gb hard drive. I cannot see the hard drive
under the my computer folder however the diagnostic tools can find the drive.
Any thoughts?

DL
Sun Jun 01 07:06:20 PDT 2008

Use Disk Management to Partition / format the drive.
Untill you do it wont be available for use

"MFgo" <MFgo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I just installed a new seta WD 400gb hard drive. I cannot see the hard
>drive
> under the my computer folder however the diagnostic tools can find the
> drive.
> Any thoughts?

eckrichco
Sun Jun 01 22:25:00 PDT 2008

As in which tools,wdc tools...Alot of SATA hd dont get recognized when
first installed on a pc,the reason being they are in a "raw state" from the
mfg..Do either,download wdc MS-DOS hd utility to a floppy,boot pc to
floppy,do a format or soft format.Or boot to xp cd,recovery,in recovery type:
DiskPart In DiskPart,the hd should show,select it,create a partition,press
ESC key,type:FORMAT D: /FS:NTFS D: being SATA hd,or type:EXIT Format
in xp.

"MFgo" wrote:

> I just installed a new seta WD 400gb hard drive. I cannot see the hard drive
> under the my computer folder however the diagnostic tools can find the drive.
> Any thoughts?

ggull
Sun Jun 08 08:02:13 PDT 2008

"MFgo" <MFgo@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:98E66F92-F9C1-4E77-B58C-CD70B6800F8A@microsoft.com...
>I just installed a new seta WD 400gb hard drive. I cannot see the hard
>drive
> under the my computer folder however the diagnostic tools can find the
> drive.
> Any thoughts?

What the two previous posters said -- you need to format and partition the
drive.
I recently installed two 500 GB WD's and found that Disk Management worked
just fine -- unless you're planning something fancy, perhaps, no need to
download software or boot from XP disc (which you probably don't have anyway
if you bought an off-the-shelf computer -- if you'd built your own, you
wouldn't be asking this question :-).

To get to Disk Management, right click on My Computer. Then click on
Manage. A window pops up. Select Disk Management under Storage in the left
pane. As I recall, your new disk should show up with no partitions, as disk
1 if you only have one previous. The Help facility for the Computer
Management is actually quite useful. Open it, and go to the Contents tab,
Disk Management. The following topics should get you going:
-- Checklist: Adding a new disk
-- Manage disks
---- Initialize new disk. .
---- Detect new disk