WD SATA Cavier Blue seen in BIOS, but not in Windows

[wood-carver]

Hello Forum Folks,

My new WD SATA 16MB cache 500 GB internal hard drive is recognized by the BIOS, but is not seen in Windows XP.  I read the instructions on the WD web page that said to jumper pins 5 - 6 to make it compatible with older mother boards.  I did that, but still it is not seen in Windows.  The PC is an HP Pavilion a1540n.  This is a secondary drive to be used as storage, since the primary is filling up too fast.  Any ideas?

[Vadir]

You need to initialize the drive, then format it.  

How to initialize: http://wdc.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1018/session/L3RpbWUvMTMyNzE0NzAwOS9zaWQvdjhtMUZIT2s...

[Alucardx23]

The same thing happened to me, but if you go to computer management you can find your HDD there.

[mlp94595]

The same thing happened to me, but none of the suggestions helped.  The disk shows up on the boot up BIOS screen but not on Channel 2 in CMOS.  It shows up on device manager, which says the device is working properly, but not on Disk Management.  I have a Seagate 750 GB drive that I've connected using the same cables, and it works just fine.

[wolfer]

One way is to download G-Parted and burn to cd .

then reboot to run the program. This is a linux based program and if you have any problems search for linux community

forms and they will help you gladly.

G-Parted is free and there are several other free programs to do the same thing.

Any one who needs help with this can email me at :    wfs151@hotmail.com  and I will get back to you as soon as possible

Hope this helps