just installed a hard drive for ym friends pc. it shows as installed in device manager but not in my computer. i have had this problem before and i know that all i have to do is assign the hard drive a letter and it will then become visible in my computer. can anyone please tell me how to do it as i have sat here for ages trying to get it done and i cannot for the life of me remember how (iot is very simple i know ) thanks in advance. p.s its a sata drive and i know it only has to be mapped but cant remember how. thanks again just found the drive in some page and it says the drive is unallocated. i knew this but how to allocate it???? daaamn pc.
You need to format the drive, go to: Control panel(classic) > Administrative Tools> Computer Management > click "+" on storgae > Disk managment > right click the drive (in the bottom ssection of the window)> select "new partition" then follow the wizzard
yeah got it sussed out it just wasnt allocated a letter. did what you said reformatted it and all now works well. turned out well for me as i got paid 1gb of ram "single stick" and a 200gb sata hard drive for my efforts. all brand new and boxed too. woot woot
