Glo, It sounds to me like the drive simply hasn't been formatted yet. New drives arrive without any sectors, so it takes a full format to break up the new space into usable chunks. It's been a long time since I formatted anything under any version of Win9x (ME is from that OS family), so I'm not sure how to guide you through the process on that system. I will strongly suggest that you remove it from your system and ask your guru to format it as FAT32 in his own system which I am assuming is running an NT version of Windows (i.e. Win2000, WinXP, Vista, Win7). He should have no problem as long as his system has the means to support a PATA drive. Peace, Gman http://www.thevenusproject.com/index.php "The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask" ----- Original Message ----- From: "Glo" <redowl@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, August 11, 2009 12:53 AM Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Hard Drive Recognition > I've added a second hard drive for audio storage to my HP 6535 which is > running ME. The main drive is set as master, the second drive is set as > slave. The slave is not being recognized in My Computer or Windows > Explorer, but it shows up in device manager under disk drives as a second > drive. It also shows in the bios on boot and under system information. > It > should come up as drive D, but it's not showing up under My Computer. I > have no clue what I'm talking about, I'm being guided, but can anyone tell > me if it needs a fix or patch for being a larger drive? > My guru has forgotten all this about 9x. Thanks for any help ~Glo --------------------------------------------------------------- Please remember to trim your replies (including this sentence and everything below it) and adjust the subject line as necessary. To subscribe, unsubscribe or modify your email settings: //www.freelists.org/webpage/pctechtalk OR To subscribe to the mailing list, send an email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "subscribe" in the Subject. To unsubscribe send email to pctechtalk-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" in the Subject. To access our Archives: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/PCTechTalk/messages/ //www.freelists.org/archives/pctechtalk/ To contact only the PCTT Mod Squad, write to: pctechtalk-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To join our separate PCTableTalk off-topic group, send a blank email to: pctabletalk+subscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---------------------------------------------------------------