Hi All.

I don’t know whether this is the right category but here goes.

I have fitted a new motherboard (pc-chips 266 fsb), cpu (2200+ Sempron 333 fsb), 256Mb DDR Ram and a second(slave) Hard Drive (Seagate Barracuda 80gb) to my clapped out pc.

It has fired up but although BIOS and POST recognise the additional hard drive, Explorer from Windows XP Pro doesn’t. I have no D drive.

There are a couple of little sound and usb probs as well but nothing I can’t sort however this has me flummoxed!

I thought I would have needed to format the Hard Drive, but as the pc worked straight from switch on it never gave me the option. I am more than happy to continue running Windows from my existing 40gb c drive, just want the bigger drive for video editing.

I know I shouldn’t be running the Sempron in this board (reads as 1200 Athlon) but made a mistake at time of purchase. Will replace board again to get full cpu speed when can afford.

So people, any help will be gratefully appreciated.

Best regards,

Bert.

There is thread around here that I cant quite find that refers to the same situation. What you need to do is going into Computer Management in Contorl Panel, Administrative Tools. In Computer Management you will find a section, Storage. The three subsections are Removable Storage, Disk Defragmenter and Disk Managemnt, click on Disk management. Here you will find Disk 0 and Disk 1, your new drive should be disk 1. Right click on Disk 1 and then select Create partion. Once that is done then right click again and select Format.

Let me know if that doesnt work (I was actaully clicking along on my machine while typing this.)

The actual option is New partition, not Create partition.

Thanks for the advice.

I'll certainly try it, when I can get it stable as I've found it's not!

I'll let you know.

Much appreciated.

Your semperon will only read at about 1200 thats the clock speed (dont ask me why) I have a semperon 2500+ and the clock speed is 1.75 hope that helps that bit out.