I bought a refurbished Maxtor 20GB hard drive on the cheap from ebay and I'm experiencing a strange situation. Note that this will be an add-on drive and NOT main drive C!
I've added hard drives to PCs a time or two before and I didn't encounter this particular problem. It's probably a very simple solution. The disk gets detected and installed just fine. Windows XP Device Managrer recognizes its name (Maxtor), model number (ST020H2) and capacity. I know it's not ready for service because the seller says it's been wiped clean. I just need to reformat it of course. But the only way I know how to do that is by right-clicking it in the "My Computer" listing. But this disk fails to show up there, for some reason!
So my question is: how else can I do a reformat? or can't I? Maybe this device is incompatible with Windows, but that is very very hard for me to accept. Any help appreciated, thank you!
