Installed new Hard Drive & its not in Windows Explorer

I installed a new Western Digital 80 GB drive. I fdisked and formatted it and it is seen by the Bios.

It shows up in Windows 2000 in the device manager BUT it is NOT showing up in My Computer or in Windows Explorer.

I have it set as the primary slave so I can copy my original drive image to it.

Any help is appreciated.
THANKS,
John

 

Hi, Hellmaster (maybe it's because of the name you got ).
Sorry about that, couldn't help it.
Right-click on My Computer and choose Manage. Go to Storage -> Disk Management. If the OS sees the disk, it should be there. From there, you can partition it from scratch and format it. I myself do it always from Windows, this way I am certain the OS will see it.
If you cannot see it in Disk Management, let me know.
Good luck.

 

sorinso,

THANKS! I went where you said and it was there.
It was already fdisked and formated in windows using Partition magic.

I right clicked on the drive and chose change drive letter (since there was no drive letter next to the drive).

I assigned D: to it and it showed up in My Computer and Windows Explorer. I dont understand why it would not have automatically been assigned a drive letter.

THANKS again,
John

 

OK, here is the latest.

I did what I said above (assigned drive letter D) and then copyed the drive image of C: to the new drive D:.

Then I switched the drive and put the new drive onto the Primary Master and the old drive onto the Primary Slave.

After setting it correctly in the Bios I rebooted and windows now has my SYSTEM drive as D: and the slave drive as C:. The opposite of how I want it.

How do I rename the SYSTEM drive back to C: and the slave back to D: ??????

thanks

 

Hi, John. I am glad it helped you.
The problem with the drive letters is more complicate than just how do you like your letters in My Computer . You see, any pointer to a full path application, like INI files, or installation paths in the registry, or even your Personal Folders file (if you're working with Outlook), or any of your special folders, start with "C:\... ". Meaning, that if you leave the letters as they are now, you will run apllications from the new OS with files and folders from the old OS. This will make impossible to back up the right data and you will have a lot of problems if, at some time in the future, you will decide to take out the old HD.
I want to remind you that the drive letters in WinXP are coming from the OS itself, and not from BIOS, like in old Win98, for instance...Now, to the real stuff:
I am assuming that you have a boot menu with two lines, one for the new OS and one for the old OS. If not, you'll have to edit your BOOT.INI file (that's tricky too: which BOOT.INI file is the computer booting from? I assume that is the one form the Primary Master, but check to be sure!! ).. For help with editting the BOOT.INI file, take a look here: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289022&Product=winxp .
There are few steps to do:
1. Boot your computer in the new OS. Change the drive letter of the old disk to anything else available (from Computer Management). NOTE: you cannot change the letter of the disk you're booting from !!
2. Boot your computer in the old OS. Change the letter of the new OS to C: and reboot again to the new OS.
3. The only thing left to do is to change the drive letter of the old OS to D: (that is now available). I advise you to disable the old HD from the BIOS and run your applications. If everything works, the job was done! If you have problems, solve them.

Good luck. Let me know.
Sorin.

 

I ended up finding a fix for it on the symantec support site.

thanks again for your help.