harddrive not showing up on my computer

i just got a new 250 gb hard drive and it;s picked up on boot and device manger but doesn't show in my computer.

i have tried it in on cable select and set to slave and still nothing
tired add new hardware and nothing

Right click My Computer
Select Manage
Click on Disk Management

Do you see your hard drive listed without a drive letter? This would be down at the bottom where there is a graphical representation of your drives. If it is there right click it and select the option to assign a drive letter.

i have now set it as d:/ i just gotta wait for it to format hehe thanks dude knew coming here would pay off hehe

Glad I could help.

ok now that i got it to show adn work my first hdd has two partitions on one as a back up for windows. is there a way a can make a copy of this disk including the back up?

Let me try and understand what you want to do.

You have one hard drive with two partitions. The first partition being your OS install and the second partition is a backup of the first partition? Is that what you want to make a copy of? Where do you want to copy it to? The new hard drive? CD? DVD?

yeah thats what i want to copy and i want to copy this to the 250GB one

You could use the native Windows Back-up tool to do this.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/usin ... uly14.mspx

i guess that would work but i do not have a winxp disk one didn't come with my comp i was thinking of booting another hard drive then copy xp to the new as i cant copy it whiles it;s being used

You shouldn't need the disk as ntbackup should already be installed.

What exactly are you trying to accomplish? Do you want the 250GB hard drive to boot XP?

yeah i wonna make 250 my main hard drive and then use my 80 GB as the back up as flip it ova so to speak