NUTS. Laptop hard drive w/ apaptor won't show up

[phasmatis_nox]

I bought a nice nifty 2.5" laptop hard drive for a mod I'm doing, and a adapter to go to the 40-pin IDE. I've got it all set up right. When I boot, the drive shows up as primary slave with the appropriate name. However, when I get into Windows, there's not drive there. I can feel that the platters are spinning and all by the vibrations.

This is probably a really simple issue. Any ideas?

 

[Ice Czar]

Start > Run > (type) diskmgmt.msc > Rclick unallocated space > Partition and Format

 

[phasmatis_nox]

Formatting... I love you.

 

[phasmatis_nox]

What if it doesn't want to format the drive because its 'open, or in use'? That's not true.

 

[Ice Czar]

hypothetical?

diskmgmt can delete any partition that isnt the system partition, that would kill most any attempt to access the partition

 

[phasmatis_nox]

That's what it told me.

 

[Ice Czar]

hmmmm...try diskpart.exe

if that fails, try accessing it in DOS
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ (Freeware ISO)
use autoclave to zero the HDD