Drive won't work

[phoderpants]

Hi guys,

I just bought a new 500 GB Sata2 Western Digital internal drive and it won't work with the system in my signature. I have one already with windows installed, so I thought this one would just sort of plug and play... It shows up under hardware profile and Windows says it has the most current driver, but it doesn't show up under "My Computer."

I'm not sure what the procedure for activating this thing is.

Thanks for all the help.

 

[unhappy_mage]

Run the "Disk Management" console, and format it. Start->Run->"diskmgmt.msc".

 

[phoderpants]

Thanks. Yeah, I was doing that actually, but it looks like this drive is DOA. I bought it from Newegg and UPS smashed one side of the box so hard that the bubble wrap inside was all popped on that side... Thank you UPS... It's making the clicking death sound of a hard drive gone bad...

Thanks for the help guys.