Hopefully, someone has a simple answer to my question. I installed a harddrive from another computer into the one I am using as a slave. I am running XP on the computer, and everything is correct as far as I can see, including the JUMPERS set to slave, power and ribbon snugly plugged in, etc. Windows announced that it detected new hardware and it shows in the DEVICE manager, drivers check out, it shows the correct amount of space, :-?the resources tab says no conflict and the system says it is working correctly. However, it does not show on any menus, and therefore I cannot access the info on the drive. Unless I look in device manager, it appears not to be there at all. Can someone shed some light on this, please? Thanks, deborahreeduk :-? [timestamp=1148824909]What is the eccomputer make/model? How is the other drive jumpered? Some are set up as cable select on the ORIGINAL hard drive and so the other drive has to match the format. Is the drive recognized correctly in the BIOS?

The most likely solution is that the disk needs to be partitioned and formatted to be used. Is there ANYTHING on the drive at all? Is it new? Go t o Disk Management Tools and make sure it is partitioned and formatted.

It sounds like formatting it will be the only issue to resolve, but that is the long winded story. Actually, the computer is a viglen with a Pentium III processor. The main drive is designated as master, and therefore the second drive is slave, and the drive in question has been formatted, and functions well in another computer. For some reason, this computer doesn't seem to "see" it, except on the device manager. I have never seen this particukar problem. Usually, it is either recognized or not, full stop. This time, it SEEMS to not recognize it, but if that were so, then I shouldn't be able to find it on the device manager, let alone confirm its drivers etc. HELP!!