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Hard Drive Help.. by Fuse on 03-30-2007 at 02:17 PM

I recently got a Maxtor DiamondMax20 160GB Hard Drive, and i installed it and it comes up in device manage but not in My Computer, anyone know what the problem is?

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I have : Windows XP Professional SP1

RE: Hard Drive Help.. by Ezra on 03-30-2007 at 02:22 PM

Is there a partition on it?

Windows only shows Partitions and not Devices in My Computer.

RE: Hard Drive Help.. by Fuse on 03-30-2007 at 02:27 PM

there are no partitions..:(

RE: Hard Drive Help.. by Ezra on 03-30-2007 at 02:33 PM

Then make partitions on it :P, right click on My Computer and choose Manage, go to the Disk Manager and find your disk and create new partitions.

RE: Hard Drive Help.. by Nathan on 03-30-2007 at 02:33 PM

This may seem irrelevant  but have you tried updating to SP2?   

RE: RE: Hard Drive Help.. by Fuse on 03-30-2007 at 02:35 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Nathan
This may seem irrelevant  but have you tried updating to SP2?   

I have a pirate version XP (boo) so i cant..
RE: Hard Drive Help.. by Nathan on 03-30-2007 at 02:38 PM

try and get a pirate version of sp2 then :P

RE: Hard Drive Help.. by M73A on 03-30-2007 at 02:43 PM

goto start

all programs

administrative tools

computer management

under storage goto disk management format it and assign it a letter...

i had to do this the other week :D

RE: Hard Drive Help.. by Fuse on 03-30-2007 at 03:17 PM

thanks everyone, got it sorted.

RE: Hard Drive Help.. by xJ + on 03-30-2007 at 03:57 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Fuse
I have a pirate version XP (boo) so i cant..
erm.. Microsoft has allowed owner of pirated windows xp regardless of RTM or service pack 1 to install service pack 2.
The pirated version of service pack 2 is pathetic imo.