Ultrabay HD Not working on T60

[boderek]

After reading many of the discussion threads and implementing many of the suggestions, I am still not getting my Ultrabay HD to work on my T60.

I am using a Lenovo SATA Drive Ultrabay (40Y8725) adapter and a Lenovo 320 GB Sata 7200 rpm HD (43N3411). I am running Windows XP with all the latest updates. I have also install all of the critical and recommended updates for T60 from Lenovo.

When I boot up with the drive, I get a "Error 2102: HDD1 (Hard disk in Ultrabay initialization error)" The drive just spins when I do a hot swap. The drive never appears as an option for partitioning/formatting in Disk Management.

I tried a Seagate 320 GB Sata 8200 rpm HD as well and got same results.

I must have spent 15-20 hours trying various things already... Can someone advise?

[RealBlackStuff]

Have you tried going into diskmanagement, and by rightclicking the new drive (the leftmost field where it says: Drive 1) and Initialize it?
Without that, you won't get anywhere.

[boderek]

It doesn't appear at all in Disk Management.

[jdrou]

I've had issues in the past where an unformatted, unpartitioned drive would not show up at all in a modular bay under Windows; I had to put it in a USB enclosure to partition and format before I could use it in the bay.