Thankyou for advice & I got it working, your suggestion was correct. Paul -----Original Message----- From: 24hoursupport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:24hoursupport-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Fuzzy Logic Sent: 09 August 2004 12:43 To: 24hoursupport@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [24hoursupport] Re: 160gb disk drive You need to partition and format the disk. Right click on My Computer and select Manage. Under Storage, you should see Disk Management. From there, you should see your new disk and be able to create partitions and format them so that you will get drive letters. Fuzzy -- "Men may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do." *Lewis Cass {1782-1866 American Politician} On Mon, 9 Aug 2004, Paul Birch <pbirch@xxxxxxx> wrote: > I just bought a 160gb Seagate hard drive & bought a ata 133 adapter > card to read the drive. On the disk drive it says windows xp will > find it & get it going. Windows has found both the hd & the adapter > card & everything has installed but in my computer there is no icon > for the drive. Everything is ok in the device manager. This is a > secondary drive. My main drive is 40gb > > Paul For a web-based membership management utility and information on list policies, please see http://nibec.com/24hoursupport/ To unsubscribe, send a blank email to 24hoursupport-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" (without quotes) in the subject. --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.735 / Virus Database: 489 - Release Date: 06/08/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.735 / Virus Database: 489 - Release Date: 06/08/2004 For a web-based membership management utility and information on list policies, please see http://nibec.com/24hoursupport/ To unsubscribe, send a blank email to 24hoursupport-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe" (without quotes) in the subject.