New Sata Problem - not recognized

I have just got a new 300GB sata hdd,
I already have a 250 GB sata that works perfectly and that my os is installed on also an 80 GB ide hdd

The problem I have is the new hdd does not show in my computer, I can see iys there in device manager, also my dvdrw has disappeared from my computer - I recently put sp2 on my pc, the dvdrw (LG16x) was working perfectly but now had gone from my computer?

I can also see all these devices in the bios - I have a mATX asus P4P800 VM mainboard - I know the new drive and dvdrw works because I swapped the sata cables and stuck my windows cd in and it started to install windows??

Anyone know how I can get windows to recognize the new 300 GB hdd??

Any help appreciated

Thanks M

 

Check Drive Management:
-Right-click 'My Computer'
->Manage
Look under Storage-->Disk Management

If you see them there, you can assign a drive letter (and format the hard drive) by right clicking on the drive to bring up a menu with various options.
I suspect that for whatever reason, the drive letter was dropped, especially if you just added the hard drive.
Do know that any programs that require reading a CD will reference the drive letter, so you will want to make sure that you assign the CD drive that letter.

 

Done that can see the drive in the bottom section and says unallocated
if i right click i get properties etc - how do i formatt and give a drive letter?

Thanks for your help bye the way

 

ok managed to get it to show in my comp, by formatting
now i get an error when i click on it, but checked disk managment again and it says formatting so hopefully all will be ok

THANKS - Big B

Top Man

 

look at item in bold​

 

its formatting at the moment, so hopefully all will be cool after that now just got to work out how to get my dvdrw back in my comp?

thanks for all you help guys

 

It's gonna take awhile to format 320GB.

Do you see the DVD drive in disk management?

 

no dvd in disk managment, but theres a yellow exclamation mark in device manager, have tried to update driver but didnt work

any idea's on this one

lol it is taking a while to formatt but where on 31% at the mo as long as it works i dont care ..

 

remove the DVD drive from device manager then reboot and XP should autodetect it (obviously when formatting is finished)

 

will try when formatt has finished ..... 94%

thanks again

 

ok formatt finished hdd working a treat - THANK you guys
tried removing dvdrw from devive manger and rebooting but still doesent work?
had a pop up saying new hardware etc but still yellow !

i have my ide hdd and dvdrw on same ide cable, would this be an issue never has been before - like i said all was working fine bfore sp2 update

still doesent show in the disk managment.

This is what it says in general properties of when Rcliked in device mager :

Windows cannot start this hardware device because its configuration information (in the registry) is incomplete or damaged. (Code 19)

Click Troubleshoot to start the troubleshooter for this device.

anyway thanks you very very much for your help on the hdd thing

cheers

Mike

 

make and model of it??

 

Thanks for the RE:

its a LG 16x dual layer - in device manager it says - HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GSA-4167B (but its not a dvdram drive - im sure it had something else listed there aswell before

if you need me to rip it out and have look at model number etc, let me know

pretty sure its this one
ebuyer.com - Components » Optical Drives » DVD-RW Drives » Product details

Thanks

 

go to [link=http://gb.lgservice.com/index_b2c.jsp]this[/link] website.

Click on the product support right over the top.
Select device drivers and download the drivers for you burner from there. Then select product, OS and type GSA-4167B in the place of Subject. You will get the list of drivers for your Burner.

The link which you have typed for ebyer is not the one you have. your one is "GSA-4167B"()

 

uninstall and reinstall sp2

 

willl that cause any sofwatre problems tho like stuff i've installed since sp2 or just screw windows?

basically hard drive problems fixed sata both woking pefectly - thanks again!!

but my pc will not recognise my dvdrw, have tried other ide cables even other CDRW they show in device manager with yellow ! and you are unable to update drivers??

whats going on

I even just installed Alcohol120% and usually you get a virtual drive to mount iso etc and Nothing!!

Please Help

 

it might, but ive done it once and it fixed the problem

 

but is there a danger of having seroius probs with windows, i'll give it a go but i really need to do some work on my pc tonight and just dont really need to much hassle?

thanks for the reply bye the way

 

if you think it might muck up windows, set a restore point first before uninstalling sp2. but i highly doubt it would.