Hi, You need to create a primary partition on the drive using the disk manager found in control panel | administrative tasks | computer maintanance MMC. Andrew. -----Original Message----- From: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of marie baisez Sent: 11 March 2005 14:54 To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [access-uk] new hard drive not showing Hi all, Installed a new hard drive yesterday, it is visible on the bios shows on device manager but not in control pannel or Windows explorer, what do I have to do to make the system recognize it and assign it a letter so that I can format it? Thanks in advance for any help. Cheers now, Marie p.s xp home sp2 jfw 6 ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq ** To leave the list, click on the immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe] ** If this link doesn't work then send a message to: ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ** and in the Subject line type ** unsubscribe ** For other list commands such as vacation mode, click on the ** immediately-following link:- ** [mailto:access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=faq] ** or send a message, to ** access-uk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the Subject:- faq