Hi Cari.

Your solution would work fine for a 'new' HDD, but what about an exisiting
HDD that has gigabytes of archived data? I am in this position, but I am NOT
going to delete the information just to get Vista to recognize this secondary
SATA HDD. I am using removeable aluminum racks, and I have a full working OS
in another rack (Windows XP Professional) and it recognizes this 200 Gig SATA
drive perfectly. Any ideas?

"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:
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> Partition and format the drive!
>
> Right click on My Computer, select Manage. On the following screen, click
> on Disk Management. It will show up on the right hand side of the screen
> from where you can partition it, format it and assign it a drive letter.
> Now it will show up in Windows Explorer. No version of Windows can 'see' an
> unformatted drive.
> --
> Cari (MS-MVP)
> Windows Technologies - Printing & Imaging
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>
> "Lakesidezx" <lakesidezx@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> news:A12D5C7E-59F4-4AD0-B747-B8C28D2C7AD0@microsoft.com...[color=green]
> > Hello,
> > I've added a new sata II hard drive to my windows vista home premium
> > installation. When I started up vista, I got the little bubble in the
> > lower right portion of the screen telling me that new hardware was
> > detected and that drivers were beign installed.
> >
> > All went fine.
> >
> > When I go to device manager, the new hard drive shows up there, but in
> > windows explorer it's nowhere to be found.
> >
> > What do I need to do to be able to see this drive and use it in windows
> > vista.
> >
> > Thanks,[/color]
>
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