keith180

Is it also recognized by the bios ? If yes, does it show in Disc Management ? If no, check the smaller cable at both ends. It does show up in disk management and the properties say it is working normally. Troubleshooting is no help!

Well I went to computer management but windows did not prompt me to initialize the disk. Clicked around on the toolbar options and did not find any "format disk" options either. The only choice I had was to "create a partition". With nothing to lose at this point I chose to create a partition and lo and behold, it assigned a drive letter and formatted the disk. When the process was over (quite a while with a 1TB disk) I have a fully functioning hard drive. Now I still cannot get my optical drive to work, I installed the software that came on the disk and updated from the Asus website, but still no joy. The drive spins when I put in a disk, LED's flash but nothing happens. Could it be a bad drive at this point? Thanks again for the help with the hard drive, that is what is so great about the online community and forums! Keith.

Thanks to all of you that replied. I will try all of the suggestions and let you know how it works out! Keith.

Hi, I just installed a 1tb sata drive as a second drive in my computer. My bios recognizes it and it shows up in device manager. However when I click on "my computer" it is not there. I am using XP sp2 and I have an Nvidia mobo with sata and ide connectors. My primary hard drive is a pata. Do I need drivers and can I install them without a clean install of my OS. The hard drive did not come with an install disk. I also added a sata optical drive at the same time and that is not working either. It spins the disk but nothing shows up. Thanks! Keith.