HELP new drive not recognize by XP

I just bought a new hard drive and the BIOS see it with no problem.
When Windows Explorer is open, it does not assign it a drive letter.
If I go to Disk Management, it shows up as UNALLOCATED.
I believe this means that it is not partitioned or formatted.

If I can't get WinXP to assign a drive letter to it, how can I
partition it or format it ?


Thanks,
Terry

I forgot to mention this harddrive is a secondary, not a master.




On May 30, 12:43 am, "terry75...@yahoo.com" <terry75...@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> I just bought a new hard drive and the BIOS see it with no problem.
> When Windows Explorer is open, it does not assign it a drive letter.
> If I go to Disk Management, it shows up as UNALLOCATED.
> I believe this means that it is not partitioned or formatted.
>
> If I can't get WinXP to assign a drive letter to it, how can I
> partition it or format it ?
>
> Thanks,
> Terry

You partition and format it in Disk Management, right click on the
unallocted space and you will see.

John

terry75115@yahoo.com wrote:

> I just bought a new hard drive and the BIOS see it with no problem.
> When Windows Explorer is open, it does not assign it a drive letter.
> If I go to Disk Management, it shows up as UNALLOCATED.
> I believe this means that it is not partitioned or formatted.
>
> If I can't get WinXP to assign a drive letter to it, how can I
> partition it or format it ?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Terry
>