Drive Addition

Just placed a SATA drive into a Vista Ultimate desktop. I have a total of
three (3) SATA drives yet to be introduced to the system ranging from 120 to
500GB in addition to the 400GB EIDE primary drive. The drive is seen in:
BIOS, Device Manager, Computer Management-Disk Management... [All Space
unallocated], but not seen in 'My Computer'. In past times, I would see the
next available alphabet letter automatically appear. The local help option
leads me to a technet page that discusses the creation of volumes, Master
Boot Record, GUID Partition tables. The link goes to a Technet site that
mentions disk management options for a number of Operating Systems but not
Vista. My intention is to use this drive for storage and possibly
applications. I would like to cultivate my knowledge of disk management
options for Vista. Guidance sought

It is not seen in MyComputer because the space is unallocated...unformatted.
Once you format the drive Vista will see it under Device Manager.

here is a little info on the various options
http://www.vista4beginners.com/How-t...anagement-tool
peter

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"MNewsome" <MNewsome@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A86F9961-24FC-4982-80F3-43F7F1832504@microsoft.com...
> Just placed a SATA drive into a Vista Ultimate desktop. I have a total of
> three (3) SATA drives yet to be introduced to the system ranging from 120
> to
> 500GB in addition to the 400GB EIDE primary drive. The drive is seen in:
> BIOS, Device Manager, Computer Management-Disk Management... [All Space
> unallocated], but not seen in 'My Computer'. In past times, I would see
> the
> next available alphabet letter automatically appear. The local help
> option
> leads me to a technet page that discusses the creation of volumes, Master
> Boot Record, GUID Partition tables. The link goes to a Technet site that
> mentions disk management options for a number of Operating Systems but
> not
> Vista. My intention is to use this drive for storage and possibly
> applications. I would like to cultivate my knowledge of disk management
> options for Vista. Guidance sought

Adding a drive doesnt make it available for use, you have to format it.
Generally using disk management
Thats the way its allways been, its not Vista specific

"MNewsome" <MNewsome@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:A86F9961-24FC-4982-80F3-43F7F1832504@microsoft.com...
> Just placed a SATA drive into a Vista Ultimate desktop. I have a total of
> three (3) SATA drives yet to be introduced to the system ranging from 120
> to
> 500GB in addition to the 400GB EIDE primary drive. The drive is seen in:
> BIOS, Device Manager, Computer Management-Disk Management... [All Space
> unallocated], but not seen in 'My Computer'. In past times, I would see
> the
> next available alphabet letter automatically appear. The local help
> option
> leads me to a technet page that discusses the creation of volumes, Master
> Boot Record, GUID Partition tables. The link goes to a Technet site that
> mentions disk management options for a number of Operating Systems but
> not
> Vista. My intention is to use this drive for storage and possibly
> applications. I would like to cultivate my knowledge of disk management
> options for Vista. Guidance sought