Hi

I recently bought a new 120Gb hard drive to use as a second drive along side my
existing 20Gb hard drive.

I have fitted the hard drive and my computer is finding it OK, but I cannot use
it in Windows (to write files to etc.) Withdows recognised the drive in System
properties, but it is not listed in My Computer.

Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks
Jamie


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Jamie wrote:
You are halfway there.. the drive needs to be partitioned and formatted
before Windows will 'see' it..

Just how you do that depends on your version of Windows and type of file
system.. can you provide some details?

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Jamie bashed at the keyboard and said :

Hi Jamie,

First you need to partition the drive, and then format it, info can be found
here http://tinyurl.com/savm

Have fun

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Thanks to all who replied!

I've formatted the drive now and it's working perfectly!

Cheers
Jamie


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I used up all my sick days, so I'm calling in dead.

Jamie bashed at the keyboard and said :

No problem :-)

How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition
or Repartition a Hard Disk
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=255867

Fdisk Does Not Recognize Full Size of Hard Disks Larger
than 64 GB
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=263044

Radified FDISK Guide _ Tutorial on How to Create & Delete
Hard Drive Partitions
http://fdisk.radified.com/


On 25 Oct 2003 08:55:42 GMT, in
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Jamie scrawled:

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Basic computer maintenance
http://uk.geocities.com/personel44/maintenance.html

And make of new Hard drive!


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