I put my old hard drive in as a slave, vista recognises it in management and device manager but doesnt recognise it in my computer?

Follow these steps:
1. right click on My Computer
2.Click on manage
3.Click Disc Management
There you can see External hd (you can chose to activate or change drive letters and that will do the job)

You have to go to control panel, adminstrative tools, storage and initialize the drive. However the way it sounds, the drive might have an issue, could be the cable or the usb port

If the device manager does not recognise the drive then it has most likely failed. You should be able to remove the drive, one screw on the underside, and reboot, Once you have done this power down, reseat the drive and power up again. If the Plug and Play software doe snot recognise it then you need a new drive.

Does the drive show in Device Manager? Right click on 'My Computer' and select properties, the open device manager.. Navigate down to Disk Drives or Hard Drives, click on the plus sign and see if your drive is listed. If it is, then right click on the drive name and open properties for the drive. Click on the 'Volumes' tab and hit the 'Populate Button'. It may be the disk just needs initialising, then reformatting before you can use it. If it does need initializing, a wizard should appear to guide you through the process!
If this doesn't solve your problem, try using a different USB cable and/or USB ports on your computer, and ensure to unplug all other USB devices other than keyboard & mouse.

Your drive could have errors due to the aborted task. You need to format your drive. Go to Computer Management, if your drive is recognized in device manager t will show up in the Computer Management, there you can format it. Good luck.

Look under device manager ,under the tab for disk management look for the disk there If you see it there, you will need to initialize it.
Good luck

Make SURE you dont' have any data on the drive that is important (or you have a good back up) Click "COmputers" and "manage" you will need to initialize the drive for VIsta to recognize it.

go to my computer>properties>device manager and scan for new hardware changes after connecting the device to your system...

if the device doesnt show up..try to install the usb driver of the particular make..

thankyou

Assuming you set it as slave or cable select as required by the motherboard, you have to first get the bios to recognise it press F2 or Del on boot up to enter cmos and then there should be an option to auto detect drives, save settings for a re boot. When in windows, right click on my computer icon and select manage>disk management and then your drives will be listed, right click on the slave drive and select format or set as active and it will then show, but only 137GB may show depending on the bios version.

There are normally only two ways to get vista to recognise large drives and that is to format it within windows by way of right click my computer then click manage and then highlight your harddrive right click and select format. The other way is if your drive isnt being recognised because of the bios and needs updating, as most bios chips did when upgrading to vista.