Win Me in common with all Win 9x operating systems can only access drives
formatted using the FAT or FAT32 filing system (Win 95 FAT only).  Third
party drivers are available that can add the ability to read NTFS
partitions but to write to NTFS volumes costs $$$.

Have you formatted your new drive? A brand new hard drive is usually
supplied unformatted and will need formatting before Windows can see it.

If it is a brand new drive then it should not be NTFS.

It probably needs to be partitioned and formatted.

Boot your computer with a WindowsMe Startup Disk and at the A:\>
prompt enter the following command:

FDISK /STATUS

If the second hard drive shows as all unallocated space then that is
the problem - you need to partition and then format the new drive.

To partition the new drive enter

FDISK

Answer Yes to the question about support for large hard drives.
Then choose option 5 - switch drives - and choose the second drive.
Next choose option 4 - display partition information - and ensure that
it shows "no partitions defined".  Otherwise STOP.  Something is
amiss.

If this new drive is going to remain as a slave drive in your machine
then you should create an Extended DOS Partition on it with a single
logical drive using all of the space (provided the drive is smaller
than 137 gb).  

Once this is done exit FDISK, remove the Startup Disk and reboot your
computer.  The second hard drive should now be visible in My Computer
but you will have to Format it for use.  Right-click on the drive icon
for the second drive and choose Format from the menu.

Good luck

 

Ron Martell     Duncan B.C.    Canada

Thanks for the advice all.  FYI, it wasn't a new drive.  
It had already been partitioned and was being used in my
computer at work.  Brought it home to make things easier
and ran into the problem above.  Decided to say heck with
it and bought a new 120gb hard drive and I'm currently
loading XP on it.  Good luck all.