HELP!! vista wont recognize my new hard drive

The drive is properly installed and is recognized correctly in the bios screen at startup. vista hp boots up. I right-click on my computer> manage. The computer management utility opens up and the new drive is recognized in the device manager but when I click on disk management I get a pop-up saying "an internal error has occured. Restart the Disk Management snap-in." I hit ok. the same message comes up three more times, then I geta message saying "MMC has detected an error in a snap-in" and requeststhat I shut down and restart MMC, which I do and it just does the same again. Thats as far as I get.

But here's the thing: I've been getting that error message way before I even installed the drive but had forgotten about it til now.

What can I do about this? Any help would greatly be appreciated!

there is a hotfix that may help

Error message when you use MMC 3.0: "MMC has detected error in a snap-in"

the site says the the hotfix is for windows server 2003, I'm running vista home premium, will it still work?

applying the hot fix now...

if it doesn't work I'm switching to ubuntu. there I said it. I feel better.

wow.

I just tried to run the hotfix an all I got was an error message telling me that "There isn't enough storage to process this command." fml.

archie123 said:

there is a hotfix that may help

Error message when you use MMC 3.0: "MMC has detected error in a snap-in"

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this didn't work. what about If I reinstalled vista?