External HDD is detected but has no icon

[halal]

I bought an external USB HDD. When I connect it to PC it detects new hardware (both - USB mass storage & HDD itself) it is in device manager but I cannot find the icon of it so I can't put anything in my HDD. Same thing happened in my both PCs (Win XP home)
Any ideas?

Thx in advance

[unhappy_mage]

Look in "Disk Management" under the Computer Management console. Likely you don't have any partitions on the disk; this will let you add one. Right click on the disk and select "new volume" and follow the wizard.

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[lithium726]

If its not showing up at all, its not just partitions. you have to add a Windows ID to the drive, so go into drive management (My Computer -> right click -> manage -> disk management) and tell it to give it an ID, then format it.

[halal]

Thx a lot
U guys are the best ;)
I guess it will work, I will write after format

[halal]

Yep, it does, thx again