Cant find Hard disk

[winks84]

I have done a Low level Format on my hard drive to try and get xp to acknowlege it but it still wont is this and XP problem or a Hardware problem does anyone know please help

 

[technoman2]

is this your main HDD (C Drive) or another HDD you have installed

 

[~mr mixx~]

in bios, you can make shure that the partition is active, if you make a partition and it is not set to active, your comp. will have a hard time reading/writing to the hhd.

 

[winks84]

what if i do if it is not partitioned, because it is a new hardrive

 

[zero4zero]

You will have to give more information: How big is your new hard drive? Are the jumpers on it well set? By default most manufactures will sell them CS (cable select); but if the hard drive you have now is set Main or primary then you will have to change the jumper on your new hard drive to slave; or change your existing hard drive to CS.
If you have service pack 2 you can install just about any size hard disk, but if you don't have SP2 then you will be limited to ~ 127 Gig.
To format it you will have to go to your control panel:: administrative tools>computer management>storage>disk management ,,,once there you should be able to find your way around, its' all there...action, rescan disk....tools format using NTFS.