Yes it must be partitioned and formatted before Explorer can 'see' it but I
have no idea why Drive Management is failing.
Are the jumpers set correctly at the rear of the drive?
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Cari (MS-MVP) Printing & Imaging
www.coribright.com/windows
"LD" <ldavies@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Quote:
> Hi
>
> I installed a secondary HDD in my wife's Vista Premium PC. It 'installed"
> and drivers installed and Vista "says" your new HDD is ready to use.
>
> However, in Computer/Explorer there is NO 2nd HDD and I couldnt "use
> it"....
>
> I took it down to local computer shop. They investigated and told me that
> the motherboard would only recognise 2 IDE devices (the first HDD and the
> DVD Burner). They suggested that they replace the DVD Burner with an ATAPI
> device (?) which I did OK and that then the 2nd IDE HDD would be
> operational.
>
> Now I DID rush them, and I didnt actually see it working, but paying for
> it, I left the shop and came home with the PC.
>
> Of course, the 2nd HDD is STILL not visible/usable in any way.
>
> When I right click on My Computer and go "Manage" and go thru to Disk
> Management, the 2nd HDD IS VISIBLE. I thought I may have to Format it. BUT
> clicking on this brings up an error message that Disk Management has
> failed and to restart your computer. I do, no help......
>
> ...and EVERY tiem I DO restart the computer the SYSTEM has changed screen
> comes up 2 times:
>
> 1st.time ....Found a new HDD (the original, first HDD) hit F1 to accept
> changes
> 2nd time... Found new HDD (NEW 250GB one) and LiteOn DVD Burner hit F1
> to accept changes
>
> then correctly thru to normal Vista boot/login...
>
> This is EVERY TIME I start PC....
>
> Any thoughts/advice would be greatly GREATLY welcomed.
>
> Rgds
> Rod
> Perth
>