Thank you! I am just formating it, I managed to assign the drive a
letter..the "layout" has automatically changed to "simple" and the "type" is
"basic". Is this okay? (btw, I couldnt see anything about partitioning). An
icon has appeared now the drive has a letter assigned, I will check if I can
access it after the format.

Cheers
Alex

"Yves Leclerc" wrote:

> Because the new hard drives are not normally delivered
> "partitioned"/"formatted".
>
>
> On 06/12/2005 Bob I <birelan@yahoo.com> wrote:
> >Partition and Format it in Disk Management.
> >
> >Al wrote:
> >> Hey, I recently installed a new Maxtor 200Gig hard drive as a slave to my
> >> Maxtor 90 Gig drive. The Hard drive is on the device manager list, and is
> >> said to be "working properly". Upon booting the PC I got the "new drive
> >> found" message and then a second message confirming its instilation. When
> I
> >> boot up it also appears in bios as a slave drive. The problem is that no
> >> drive icon appears in the My Computer folder, and there is no way for me to
> >> access the drive.
> >>
> >> Any ideas? Thanks.
> >> Alex
> >
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> Y.
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