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, 12:42 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

Right-click the Unallocated space and then click New Partition. At one point
you choose the size (you might want more than one partition), and later the
procedure will proceed to create the partition and the format. Since this is
a new drive, I'd let it do a full format, not a quick one. Full format
checks the disks integrity, and a small percentage of disks will have bad
spots right out of the box.

--
Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
www.grystmill.com

<terry75115@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1180503752.555123.133690@q69g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com...
>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
>

<terry75115@yahoo.com> wrote
>I forgot to mention this harddrive is a secondary, not a master.
>
> On May 30, 12:42 am, "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 ?

Partition/format and then assign a drive letter. In Disk Management right
click in the unallocated space and start with partitioning.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]

<terry75115@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:1180503752.555123.133690@q69g2000hsb.googlegr oups.com...
>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 ?
>

Does the disk have a little 'no entry' icon attached to it in disk manager?
A new disk need to be intitialised in Disk Manager. You can do this by
right clicking on the disk's grey box at the left hand side and selecting
initialise (or something very similar). Once done you can now click on the
right hand part and allocate/format partitions.