I have an oldish XP computer that I use for video editing. 80 Gb primary HDD and a 40Gb secondary HDD. As the secondary was full but I wanted to keep the content as archive, I bought a new 80 Gb HDD to replace the secondary. I swapped the new one for the old but it doesn't show up in the my computer list and the desktop shows H Drive with a red ? although the HDD is there in the system devices list saying it is working correctly. I swap other old drives in and they show up and work.

I thought it might be that the system can't scope with 80 Gb, but the primary at 80 Gb works and shows as such.

What could be wrong ? Yes, I've set the jumper to Slave

Is the drive formatted - if not you will have to format it.

If it's a brand new drive you'll need to initalise and / or format it - go into control panel --> administrative tools, then computer management. Go into the disk manager part, and if the disk needs initializing, it'll prompt you to do it. Once that's done, it'll show up in disk manager as unpartitioned space - right-click on it and choose create partition - once that's done you can format the partition, and it'll show up as a drive in My Computer.

Obviously take care that you've got the new drive selected!

HTH


vince

have you set the jumpers correctly for it to be either the master or slave ?

Thanks
Vinny, that partially worked but it shows as 31.4 Gb, not 80. Did I screw up ?

Vinny ?