I just had the same issue. Go to the Seagate site and download the hard 
drive installation Wizard. Worked great for me after I had been fighting 
with "fdisk" (pre XP) for a while.

Tom Mayer

Donald DeWitt wrote:
> Hello members,
>
> I need advice installing a second hard drive as a slave. I have a Dell 
> XPS
> 400 running with XP. I purchased a new Seagate 160GB Serial ATA w/NCQ
> 7200/8MB from an internet company and a hookup cable from a different  
> internet
> source listed as SATA Serial ATA Cable – 36inch – Red – 1 Right Angle
> Connector. I installed the drive and connected the cable to the drive and
> the motherboard also connected the extra power plug to the drive. The
> computer doesn't recognize the drive by clicking on "My Computer" also 
> the
> Add Hardware Wizard cannot find it. The drive did not come with an
> installation CD or installation instructions.  Where do I go from here?
>
> Don DeWitt
>
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