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Old 23rd October 2004 | 21:07
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installing 2nd hard drive

I have just installed a second hard drive into my PC. I want this 2nd one to be the slave. My problem is that my system doesn't find and assign it a drive letter.
I have set the jumper as a slave and is connected and physically installed ok, and I have set the BIOS up.
I created a ms-dos start-up disk, but when I rebooted it didn't go to ms-dos so I have not been able to format the new drive.
When I first booted up after installation the pc said that it had detected new hardware and in the device manager it is there and it says it is working properly.
But I cannot assign it a drive letter!!!!!
I have tried the trouble shooter on the device manager, but that didn't sort it out.
All I want to do is give it a drive letter so that I can save to it, large files.
I am running XP.

HELP, Please
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