Well, I plugged in the IDE and PS cables, screwed in the grounding screws, closed everything and turned on the computer. A little window above the system tray said "new hardware found - wd xxxxxxx" so it detected my HD. The problem is that the drive doesnt show up in 'my computer'.

What can I be doing wrong? Any help is appreciated.

btw, here's my system:http://reviews.designtechnica.com/re..._specs744.html

 

go to the start menu, right click on my computer, and click manage.
under storage, go to disk management, you should see your new hd in there somewhere.

 

Restart teh PC :dunno:

 

make sure the pin setting is correct...

 

already tried restarting the pc.

in disk management, i see my disk 0, shown as my system drive c: and logical drive d:.
i see my disk 1 which is the one i just threw in there, and it says "not initialized" and "unallocated"

:dunno: what do i do now?

 

yep, disk 0 is the system disk, so i set the pin setting on disk 1 is dual slave, as they share an ide cable.

 

ok, but did you reset the pin on the system disk so that it doesn't think its the only hdd? Set the system disk to dual master.

 

Well, we do know the system is detecting the HD so try going into a command prompt and try to format the new HD

 

so initialize the new hdd then format it :doh:

 

if its detected under "hardware" then you have the same problem i had.

i had to use the install disc it came with to have it detect in "my computer"