windows not detecting my harddisk!

dibilo SG

help!

i just bought a 320GB IDE harddisk. I have a 80 GB harddisk as master so i put the new one as slave. my bios correctly detected it as "primary slave", my device manager detected it too.. but the only thing is under "my computer", i cant find it.

anyone knows whats the problem?

using win XP pro

alwaysdisturbed SG

set jumper?

btw you bought it at the pc show?

manyu882 SG

go disk management to see it.

dibilo SG

lol thanks for the advice from u guys.. just found out what happened.. i went to the disk management to set a name for it and now its fine. thanks again.

hmm and why did it only detect 298GB instead of 320?

dibilo SG

yup yup bought at pc show.

alwaysdisturbed SG

the 'missing' disk space are used to store information of the disk.

dibilo SG

k thanks again. btw, nothing really interesting at the pc show... pack like hell

ndmmxiaomayi SG

22GB worth of data? It's too huge...

I can't exactly remember what caused it, it's a hardware limitation.