cannot find a new hard drive

On XP Home. I have had two hard drives, and a long time ago I
reconfigured the hardware profiles to try to save power and heat.
Now, after a while with only one internal drive, I have installed a
second drive.
I cannot get it to recognize a new hard drive that I installed.

Is there a way to reset the "hardware profiles" config??

I can see the drive on the device manager. It's there and working
properly. It's not showing up on "My Computer"

Any ideas?

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<a46b0535-244e-4faa-9387-(E-Mail Removed)>,
mdizzl <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:
>On XP Home. I have had two hard drives, and a long time ago I
>reconfigured the hardware profiles to try to save power and heat.
>Now, after a while with only one internal drive, I have installed a
>second drive.
>I cannot get it to recognize a new hard drive that I installed.
>
>Is there a way to reset the "hardware profiles" config??
>
>I can see the drive on the device manager. It's there and working
>properly. It's not showing up on "My Computer"
>
>Any ideas?

Silly question, but have you partitioned/formatted it? (And is it either
on a different IDE channel, or set as slave? The fact that you can see
it in some places suggests that it is.)
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Thanks, J.P. I have not, in fact, formatted it. I can do so via USB
connection, I suppose (with an adapter I have) although it is straight
out of the box, so *should* be formatted...??

I will definitely look at the slave status - that's a great idea.
Thanks!

Matt

On Sep 23, 8:50*am, mdizzl <matthew.davis...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, J.P. *I have not, in fact, formatted it. *I can do so via USB
> connection, I suppose (with an adapter I have) although it is straight
> out of the box, so *should* be formatted...??
>
> I will definitely look at the slave status - that's a great idea.
> Thanks!
>
> Matt

Partitioning under Disk Manager worked. Thanks!