You can go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management >
Disk Management. Select the disk, and initalize it and format it in there.
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Dustin Harper
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"JosephMo" <josephmouhanna@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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>I installed a second SATA drive in my system, but Vista does not
> recognize it. When I look in the Control Panel, Device Manager, Disk
> Drives, it shows the two drives. I also see both drives if I enter the
> BIOS settings. Windows Explorer does shows only the original drive.
>
> The BIOS setting for the SATA drives is AHCI.
>
> Do I need to format it? if so, where do I go to format it?
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --thx, Joseph