Help with 100g SATA and drive Bay adapter

[PewterCamaro]

OK I bought a drive bay adapter pn 40y8725 and a 100g SATA drive from a friend for $75. He never used them on his thinkpad because he could not get the computer to recognize the HD and just didn't want to spend the time to get past it and went with an external drive instead.

Anyways I got my hands on it. Swaped it in booted the computer up but it doesn't assign it a drive letter.. If I go do device manager it has the hard drive listed there with no errors and if I go to properties it will show that it is a 100g HD but als has that whole amount in Unallocated space.

My guess is that the drive just needs to be formated but the Last computer I had was a Win 2k Professional on a PII toshiba laptop and with XP the only way I can find to format a new HD would be to buy a new copy of XP? or possibly use the recovery disks I made? right? but since I can't have both the CD and the hard drive in the computer at the same time that won't work. Is there anyhitng at all I can do? or would I just have buy an external box and dump the bay adapter? Or mabey the HD is bad? I just don't know what to do from here.

[zhenya]

Right click on My Computer, choose Manage. Under Storage choose Disk Management. Your new disk should be visible there, probably as all unallocated space. Right click on the unallocated space and you will have the option to create partitions.

[PewterCamaro]

OMG Thank you!!! I spent forever looking for that! You would think this would be in the control panel or system tools but I guess that would make too much sense.