I had a hard drive pop last week, it was old, fully backed up so no problem. I bought a new one from ebuyer - cheap as chips.

I set it to slave, fitted it, DEL'd to bios and it recognised, F10 and exit. Start up windows, to my computer but do drive.

I have done this dozens of times without any problems, what am I doing wrong? Showing up lovely in BIOS but not windows. I thought it may not be formatted, but how do you format it if it isn't showing in windows?

Off the top of my head.

Start > control panel > admin tools > computer management > disk manager.

The drive should show in there, you'll need to initialise it, then format.

Yup... its not formatted..

Right click on "my computer" and click manage...

you cna then format unparitioned space

Thanks - doing it now. God I love this site

After you install windows it is a good trick is to download and run "Hijackthis" and save the log file that way you can keep a track of any extra startup programs that get installed when you install new software.

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Originally posted by britishtrident
After you install windows it is a good trick is to download and run "Hijackthis" and save the log file that way you can keep a track of any extra startup programs that get installed when you install new software.

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Better yet create a ghost image after you have installed all of your drivers and software and have set up windows like you want it. Reinstall takes 15 minutes then and you are fully back up and running.

http://driverpacks.net/

http://www.nliteos.com/

nuff said