New secondary IDE hard drive

[makoblue]

Hello hexus!

I'm currently using Vista Home on a SATA hard drive and have just bought a 320 GB Seagate IDE hard-drive and want to set it up partly for extra storage and partly to create a partition for XP.

I've installed the HDD as the primary master IDE as I don't have any other IDE devices, I just have just SATA HDD and DVD drives. The new HDD appears in the BIOS and I have set it all to auto, and have tried setting the interface specifically to LBA as the Seagate website says, but when I load Vista up it doesn't appear in the Computer folder.

Can anyone tell me why?

Cheers.

[Splash]

Check in Disk Management, you need to partition and format the disk.

[DDY]

If it's new you also need to activate it, you can do this in Disk Management found in the control panel and then administrative tools.

[makoblue]

Haha, just figured that out after I posted this...

Thanks for the replies, though!