Thanks,
I completely forgot that new hard drives don't come pre formated. Works
like a champ now.


"Cari (MS-MVP)" <NewsGroups@coribright.com> wrote in message
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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.
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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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