Additional Hard Drives Aren't Recognized

[SupaStar]

Agreed, that is exactly how it happens, however to me Sharon's post implied her 2nd HDD existed before her upgrade to XP!

Anyway, the problem is not solved so follow Rev's advice

Sharon, right-click on My Computer and choose Manage.

Click the Disk Managment folder (under the Storage heading) all your detected drives should be listed in the lower right-hand-side of the window.

Your Local Disk will be in the upper right-hand-side. From here you should be able to right-click the individual drive and format or partition it. REMEMBER that formating or partitioning will cause you to lose ALL the data on that drive!!

[Reverend]

Sharon, right-click on My Computer and choose Manage.

Click the Disk Managment folder (under the Storage heading) all your detected drives should be listed in the lower right-hand-side of the window.

Your Local Disk will be in the upper right-hand-side. From here you should be able to right-click the individual drive and format or partition it. REMEMBER that formating or partitioning will cause you to lose ALL the data on that drive!!

Go to Control Panel > Adminstrative Tools > Computer Mangement > Disk Management.Does the HDD show up? If you can see the drive,right click and select format.(i'm presuming you don't have any important data on it).

OK,so your navigation to Disk Management is quicker than mine.

[SupaStar]

OK,so your navigation to Disk Management is quicker than mine.

Haha...I actually posted that before I had read your post in full so I had to edit to include 'follow Rev's advice' LoL

Good work Sharon!