How do I recognize a drive in the Ultrabay?

[markusthinkpad]

I have a T60P and have purchased an Ultrabay hard drive adapter. I have a Toshiba 120GB hard drive installed in it. It is a fresh unformatted drive. I can see the drive in the device manager but it does not show up in the explorer. I do not know how to format it.

Please if someone could give me a little help as to what to do.

[SHoTTa35]

standard for most drives. You have to go to the Computer Management console and initialize and format the drive.

Right click My Computer and choose Manage. Go down to disk management - right click the drive and choose format and follow the wizard.

[Crunch]

I always use third-party software to do the formatting, partitioning, managing new hard drives, and partitions. I've been running a 100GB 5k4 as the Ultrabay drive, which I've replaced with a 160GB 7k2, so 360GB combined I've found to be way more than enough for me. Probably even overkill. I used Partition Magic for the longest time on XP, but Acronis Disk Director is my new favorite.

Symantec never bothered to make PM Vista-compatible in now over a year of the Vista RTM was released.

[markusthinkpad]

standard for most drives. You have to go to the Computer Management console and initialize and format the drive.

Right click My Computer and choose Manage. Go down to disk management - right click the drive and choose format and follow the wizard.

Thank you that was easy I don't know why I didn't think to do that.