Just bought one for me computer but it wont work, set it as slave and the PC device manager says its working properly but I cant see it on explorer?
My computer is old with a P2 450Mhz, 256ddr ram, and main HDD is 40 Gig the new HDD is 120 gig with ata/133 marked on it, is my PC gonna be compatable with this?



Any help greatly appreciated

Steve

 

Probably not fella, if your running windows xp and have formatted the drive with ntfs partition, your motherbord may only see it as an 80 gig drive at most

 

i run 2 hard drives ones a 20 gig maxitor
second 120 gig barracuda
runs windows 98se and xp pro
got 750 ram and g force 5600
had no problems apart from
swilling keyboards with beer from time to time
SHIT happens as ABOVE but have you updated all your driver programs

 

If all you have done is plugged the drive in as a slave and switched your PC on there may be more for you to do yet. If you have XP you may have to introduce the drive and format it in computer management (disk management tab), under Administrative Tools in your Control Panel....

 

do what weevil said

altho you're PARTITIONING it not formatting it

 

Uf the motherboard doesn't detect it, then windows won't, you'll need to check in the bios to make sure the pri slave shows as the manufacturer of your drive, it will show this on this screen after it's detected the ram