missing drive

Insane_Drifter

I have an extra drive which is my second slave this shows in device manager but not in "my computer" how can i change this? I want to use it for storage in case of more problems.

pcombo

Has there been a partition made for it and drive letter assigned to it.

Insane_Drifter

not that i know of

Insane_Drifter

Sorry to keep asking but i am still learning

pcombo

try right clicking on computer management and make the drive active etc.

Insane_Drifter

not showing in disk management?

pcombo

you said it shows in device manager. if it shows there then it will show in disk management.

Insane_Drifter

would that be disk o? basic

Mattjimf

Right click My Computer > Click Manage > in the left hand pane select Disk Management.
This should show all the drives connected on in the computer, the top being the ones picked up by Windows and the drive letters assigned, the bottom being the actual drives and how they are partitioned (if they are partitioned). Select the hard drive that is marked as Free Space (luckily i have a part of my hard drive in this situation, see image) right click and select the New Logical Drive (or whatever is available to make it usable).

Disk Manager window


Disk 0 will be your main hard drive with the Windows partition on it. DO NOT TOUCH if you don't know what your doing, you could lose everything.

Insane_Drifter

I dont have that here just disk 0 nothing saying free space as on diagram so i guess the maxtor isnt showing?

Mattjimf

If you only have a Disk 0 then you need to check that your BIOS is picking it up. When you start your computer do you get the screen showing Primary Master, Primary Slave, Secondary Master, Secondary Slave. If so does your maxtor drive show there?