New Hard Drive - why wont you work!?!?

[Weird NJ]

i set the jumpers to slave and master. the end of the ide cable is connected to the 60gb drive that came with the pc, and the connector of the cable is attatched to the new 120gb drive. when i first turned on the pc, it said "new hardware detected." if i go into the device manager, it is listed there and it says its working properly.

So respectively, the 60gb is primary and the 120gb is slave. Right? It has to be because it boots up.

What you say here is that windows detects it. So if you go into My computer, is it shown there as another drive? If it is you should be able to format it.

If it isn't, you probably have to partition it first. the Maxor disk isn't working so you should try to use Windows. I don't remember where you can find it, but there should be an FDISK command somewhere in the Windows directories or on the Windows CD.

On a side note, Check to see if you have it plugged into the right IDE port on the motherboard. In my case I have four (that's a possible support of 8 drives :thumbs-up. 2 Channels that support 133 bus speed and 2 Channels that support 100/66/33.