MSI P6N SLI Plat - Harddrive not appearing in my computer

Hi guys,
Ive just bought an additional sata2 drive for my pc. I already have a raid - 0 setup.
It shows in bios and i managed to find it using the 'manage' option through XP. Its been formatted to NTFS, and despite being able to copy files over to it,
it doesnt appear in the My computer window?? this is really beginning to bug me, the only advice online has been to format the drive which ive already done twice!!
I am no expert, so iam out of ideas. Any help appreciated.
Thanks
Intel E6600
2 Gig DDR2 Corsair 6400C4
MSI P6N Sli Platinum
XFX 8800 GTS 320 XXX
2 x (34G) Western Raptors Raid -0
Hiper 480W psu

Hello,
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It shows in bios
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i managed to find it using the 'manage' option through XP.
You mean XP Disk Management?
Is/was there a drive letter assigned in disk management?

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About bootup, i dont know yet.
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To go there go to controlpanel, system then choose devicemanager.
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MHzre option is white, but nothing happened after I hit enter.
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3x for the info, but what is the thermal specs of E4300, which is 61 sth

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Hiya flobelix
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MSI P6N SLI V2 + E8400 = no post

Hello!!!
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Processor: E8400 Wolfdale Core2Duo
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upon first boot before entering bios, the first line
A7346 V1.4 071808
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it with my E8400??
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here:
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