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SBS 2008 missing 2nd drive in array

I have just done a new install on my dell server and going into the my computer icon shows my first drive (C) which is a 250 gig drive. It's actually two drives in Raid 1 config.

The problem is I don't see my 2nd drive, 1 terrabyte (again 2 drives in the array).
The device manager shows the 2nd entry for the
Dell Perc 6/i Adapter SCSI Disk Device
and if I go to the Volumes tab and click populate it shows:
Disk      Disk2
Type    Unknown
Status  not initialized
Partition style     not applicable
Capacity    953344 MB
Unallocated space    0
Reserved space   0

how do I get this drive to show up in the my computer area?


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Right click on it and select initialise
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KCTS,

There's nothing to click on...
I'm going to try PowerEdgeTech's solution after lunch..
I initialized the terrabyte drive using the OpenManage software as suggested and then rebooted the server.
The Dell OpenManage program now shows them online, but the device manager still stays the same thing about the 1 terrabyte drive. No change and nothing showing in the my computer area.

Any other ideas ??
What about Disk Management (right-click Computer, Manage) ... what does it show there?  How many disks?  Maybe a screenshot of DM and OMSA Storage, PERC, Virtual Disks?
I checked and the drive needed formatting and a drive letter associated with it.
I'm formatting it now...
I'll check back in when its done.
I didn't go for the fast format and it looks like this will take quite a while.
I'm going to close the question and assign points to PowerEdgeTech as this solution will in all likelyhood solve the problem
Yeah, setting it up in Windows (formatting, etc.) is only possible on a PERC after setting the drive up in some sort of RAID array, even if it is just a single-disk RAID 0, since the PERC does not support non-RAID.

Take care.