have you tried to partition and format it?
<JADank@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Dear techs,
>
> im trying to install a 250gb WD IDE drive in a Winwods Media Center
> edition Dell. The drive was previously formatted for NTFS on a winxp
> pro machine. The drive is connected to a pci card that came with the
> drive. the pci card works fine because another drive is conencted to
> it and is fine. the issue is that windows recognizes the drive, but in
> the disk managment utility it says it's dynamic and unreadable. I know
> i never converted the drive to dynamic. The WD diagnostic floppy
> confirms that the 250gb drive is ok. Anyone have any ideas how to make
> this disk work with windows? Ive already tried all tech support from
> WD, Microsoft, and DELL.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Joel
>