New Drive doesn't show up in My Computer

[dino8031]

I just installed a new WD SATA Drive on a secondary SATA controller. I have an Asus A8V board. I have two other SATA drives on the Primary SATA controller, one of which contains WIN XP. I also have two optical drives on the IDE channel.

The drive shows up under Computer Managment and I have formatted it and shared it over my home network. The drive is fully functional. It also shows up in My Network Places. I can access it from there, as well as through a shortcut on my desktop. It also shows up under the Device Manager.

The issue is that it does NOT show up under My Computer with the other drives.

Anyone have a solution?

[Paul Komski]

To confirm:
You have three SATA Disks 0, 1 and 2 showing in DiskManagement.
You are single booting WinXP from one of these three drives.

How many partitions on each drive and what Drive Letters have been assigned to them under Disk Management?

Expand the "MyComputer" area of TweakUI for WinXP and under Drives see if selecting/deselecting the drive letter for the relevant partition makes any difference.

Get the various WinXP PowerToys from http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

[dino8031]

0= C: G: (Win XP boots from C:) (partititioned)
1= F:
2= H: (the new drive)

D: Optical Drive
E: Optical Drive

Tried the Tweak UI thing. Still Nothing.

Also, the H: drive is recognized by virtually all of my applications.

[dino8031]

You're right. In the Drives section of Tweak UI the H: drive was unchecked. Once checked, it shows up in My Computer.
Thank You.

[Paul Komski]

It's a strange one. Presumably if you enter H: into the address bar of My Computer it does also open the drive.

You could try changing the letter to say Z: and then change it back again if My Computer did identify it correctly as Z:. You could also give the drive a new disk signature. This can be done with fdisk /mbr from a DOS floppy on all three drives. Not for the faint hearted and not without backing up data. This makes Windows think there are three new HDDs attached and so it sets up all the drive letters from scratch.

Another bit of overkill that might or might not work is a repair installation; its up to you.

Or you could just try zeroing just the problem drive and then reformatting it.

Make sure that no other removable devices, USB camera, USB pen drive etc could be confusing the drive identification.

EDIT
He He Darnit - didnt see you had solved it!!! ;)