New hard drive not quite working
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New 80GB Western Digital hard drive arrived today. Shows up in the bios and
win device manager but can't access it in Windows XP (Home).
Is this because it hasn't been Fdisked or formatted?
New 80GB Western Digital hard drive arrived today. Shows up in the bios and
win device manager but can't access it in Windows XP (Home).
Is this because it hasn't been Fdisked or formatted?
More about : hard drive working
Archived from groups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage (More info?)
EverettPet wrote:
> New 80GB Western Digital hard drive arrived today. Shows up in the
> bios and win device manager but can't access it in Windows XP (Home).
>
> Is this because it hasn't been Fdisked or formatted?
Simply partition and format it in the XP's Disk Manager (part of Computer
Management, section "Storage").
Partitions are then assign proper drive letters so that you can actually use
your HDD...
--
M.f.G.
Michael Kimmer
"Ein Tag an dem Du nicht lächelst ist ein verlorener Tag"
"Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht"
EverettPet wrote:
> New 80GB Western Digital hard drive arrived today. Shows up in the
> bios and win device manager but can't access it in Windows XP (Home).
>
> Is this because it hasn't been Fdisked or formatted?
Simply partition and format it in the XP's Disk Manager (part of Computer
Management, section "Storage").
Partitions are then assign proper drive letters so that you can actually use
your HDD...
--
M.f.G.
Michael Kimmer
"Ein Tag an dem Du nicht lächelst ist ein verlorener Tag"
"Eine Nacht in der Du nicht schläfst ist eine verschlafene Nacht"
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