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Jshelton31 · 01-04-2008, 06:23 AM

Hello - I'm hoping you can help me with a small problem that i have....

I am trying to install a WD800JB hard drive as an extra storage space for my grandmother's machine (which she recently inherited). It currently has a 10GB HD already in it (a seagate HD). The machine itself is a PII processor with 288 mb RAM, the BIOS is a Phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6.0, and runs on WIN XP.

The problem that I am having is that the PC will not pick up the new 80GB HDD. When you go into the BIOS settings, the drive is there, but is only showing that the HDD has about 12,000 MB of space (rather than the 80,000MB or so that it should have). Also, when you log into windows, it shows up in the device manager as being present, but will not allow you to initialise the HDD in the Disk Managment section of the Computer Management dialogue box...

I've downloaded the latest drivers off the net for this HDD, but it still isn't recognised for use by the PC (yet it still shows up in the device manager).

Does anyone have any ideas?

01-04-2008, 06:23 AM	#1 (permalink)
Jshelton31 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 4 OS: Win XP	Trying to get a new hard drive recognised on an old PC Hello - I'm hoping you can help me with a small problem that i have.... I am trying to install a WD800JB hard drive as an extra storage space for my grandmother's machine (which she recently inherited). It currently has a 10GB HD already in it (a seagate HD). The machine itself is a PII processor with 288 mb RAM, the BIOS is a Phoenix BIOS 4.0 release 6.0, and runs on WIN XP. The problem that I am having is that the PC will not pick up the new 80GB HDD. When you go into the BIOS settings, the drive is there, but is only showing that the HDD has about 12,000 MB of space (rather than the 80,000MB or so that it should have). Also, when you log into windows, it shows up in the device manager as being present, but will not allow you to initialise the HDD in the Disk Managment section of the Computer Management dialogue box... I've downloaded the latest drivers off the net for this HDD, but it still isn't recognised for use by the PC (yet it still shows up in the device manager). Does anyone have any ideas?