trying to add a new hard drive

[Lord Akira]

I recently found an old hard drive that I had discarded a while back, and I thought it would be nice to put it in my new computer. I put it in and it's set up as a slave and I can see it in my BIOS, I can see it in my hardware list, but I can't see it in My Computer or get access to it any other way.The only problems that I can think of are that the old hard drive is an IBM and my newer one is a Seagate, and that might be a problem (I really don't know),or that I still have Windows XP installed on my old hard drive. Thanks for any help.

 

[DougLite]

Start\Run\Diskmgmt.msc, what do you see?

 

[Lord Akira]

I can see the second hard drive now, and it says it's space is unallocated.

 

[Lord Akira]

should I make a new partition?

 

[DougLite]

Yes, presuming that you are not concerned about erasing whatever data may still be on the drive, but inaccessible for lack of a file system. If you want to blow away the drive, then right click the unallocated space and select New Patition...

 

[Lord Akira]

Thanks, that worked great