Installing a 2nd drive in Windows

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A user successfully installed a slave drive on a Windows computer, which is recognized in Device Manager as a 160GB drive and has been formatted. However, the drive did not appear in Windows Explorer as Drive E:. The issue was resolved by properly partitioning the drive, which is a necessary step to make it visible in Explorer.
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My bro has installed a slave drive on his windows box. He can see it in Device Manager, which can tell it's a 160Gb drive, and he's been able to format it too. (He's not switching drives, he's still got Windows running fine on his Master drive, he's simply adding a slave. )

He can't see it listed as Drive E: (after his DVD-drive) in Explorer.

There's got to be one step left that we've missed.
 
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Nevermind. He figured it out. He hadn't partitioned it properly.
 

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