Did you initialize the disk?

Did you partition and format the disk?

Steven

"james" <james@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BB0F27A0-A1C5-4F30-8E4F-79D72D07A8A7@microsoft.com...
> iam runing xp pro sp2 i am trying to add a 300gb hard drive as a slave but it
> will not apper in my computer but windows says its there and working ok and
> it is in the bios any help