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Old August 21st, 2008, 10:26 PM   Digg it!   #1 (permalink)
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new HD not assigned

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Using XP Pro I just installed a new 500GIG WD SATA drive. When I booted after installing it the new hardware balloon recognized it, it shows up in BIOS as 4th master, all 3 of my drives are SATA. I want to use this one as a scratch disc. Device manager says it's working properly but it doesn't show up in My Computer & obviously it's not assigned a letter so what gives guys? Never encountered this before.
Thanks for any "now here's how"
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Old August 22nd, 2008, 12:47 AM     #2 (permalink)
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Fixed it with WD Lifeguard Tools a super program.

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Old August 22nd, 2008, 01:15 AM     #3 (permalink)
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Another way would have been to go to Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management. There you can format and initialize your new drives.
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