Really Confused, Please Help.

So today i bought an 80GB Maxtor Hard Drive (For Storage Disk "D"). I brought it home, set the jumper setting to slave and put it in my sliding tray and booted up my computer. I went to "My Computer" on my desktop and saw Drive "D". Everythings great right...not really.



I clicked on the "D" drive and then clicked on "File" and then i clicked on "Format" and it began formatting the new Hard Drive. After the formatting was done i did a complete "Thorough" scan disk (as recommended) to see if there were any errors or not on the new Hard Drive...it found none. After i clicked on the Drive "D" in windows explorer it showed only 7.82GB and not 80GB? So i shut down my computer and did a restart and now it doesn't even recognize drive "D" when my new Hard Drive is in my sliding tray.



What could have happened here? How can i get my computer to recognize the new Hard Drive while it is in my sliding tray? It doesn't make any sense to me at all! It was recognized when i first put it in the tray, it said it was formatted and now i can't access it. Someone please help me out here.



I am running Windows 98SE on an AMD Duron 600MHZ machine. Keep in mind i have 14 X 80GB Hard Drives and they all work so this new 80GB should also work.



Thanks for helping everyone!

I was just thinking, while i started to format the new Hard Drive A "blue screen" popped up and said something like:



"Norton detected suspicious virus like ....do you want to copy WINDOWSEXPLORER.EXE..." and i think i clicked on "exclude" instead of letting it copy.



Would this make my windows explorer not recognized this new Hard Drive now? If so what can i do now to try and re-format it again? This is driving me nuts!!! Someone please help!



Thanks!

I guess my first point of attack would be to take it out, boot up the CPU. Then reinstall it and reformat it...

Yeah, you probably should have let it copy, sometimes those programs will identify explorer as a virus... (hmm..., I wonder why?)

Yeah, i got scared and figured it wouldn't be necessary to copy the "WINDOWSEXPLORER.EXE file" for the formatting to work. But now how can i re-format the Hard Drive again? My computer won't recognize it anymore?



Thanks!

Just use a 98 boot floppy with fdisk and format and delete the parition and reformat it, make sure you do the right drive, think you said D drive

http://www.bootdisk.com/

My new Hard Drive is no longer visible to me on my computer, i don't know how to access it whatsoever anymore. Where do i go to "fdisk" the new Hard Drive? Thanks!

shut down computer, put in boot floppy http://www.bootdisk.com/ start computer to boot to floppy, type fdisk, it should show your d drive weather windows does or not, delete parition on D Drive, make new parition, shut down, restart, this time type format D:, after it formats shut down and remove floppy and reboot, the drive should show up. Plus the computer need to have the floppy as first in your boot order to boot to floppy

Well, i tried starting with the floppy disk and it started ok, however i didn't see my drive "D". I got to where it says "delete partition" and 4 other things on the list however i didn't want to go any further because i didn't want to delete my "C" drive. All it said at the top was drive "1". I dunno what to do next.



If it wasn't for my damn Norton i wouldn't have had this problem!

I would only connect the new HD to the system and disconnect all of the others when trying to redo it. Then run the boot disc.

Another thing... since you have all 80Gb HD's maybe you can just ghost one that you use as storage onto the new HD, then delete all of the files stored on it.