Adding a new hard drive

[Guest]

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Dear all, I want to add a new hard drive but the new drive is not showing in
explorer:

Set up is 1 hard disk and 2 partitions C: & D:
Also I have a CD R+W E: and a DVD R+W F:
plus the new Hard drive

The new drive is set as slave, and in the device manager it is showing and
working correctly!!

Very frustrating!

 

[peter]

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you need to format that drive before it will show
peter
"PSM." <PSM.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:07389ED4-37CB-402C-8246-32791BC81F6A@microsoft.com...
> Dear all, I want to add a new hard drive but the new drive is not showing in
> explorer:
>
> Set up is 1 hard disk and 2 partitions C: & D:
> Also I have a CD R+W E: and a DVD R+W F:
> plus the new Hard drive
>
> The new drive is set as slave, and in the device manager it is showing and
> working correctly!!
>
> Very frustrating!

 

[Guest]

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You'll need to run diskmgmt.msc and assign it a drive letter before it will
show up. You may also need to partition and format it if it isn't already.

"PSM." <PSM.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:07389ED4-37CB-402C-8246-32791BC81F6A@microsoft.com...
> Dear all, I want to add a new hard drive but the new drive is not showing
> in
> explorer:
>
> Set up is 1 hard disk and 2 partitions C: & D:
> Also I have a CD R+W E: and a DVD R+W F:
> plus the new Hard drive
>
> The new drive is set as slave, and in the device manager it is showing and
> working correctly!!
>
> Very frustrating!

 

[Guest]

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Thanks diskmgmt.msc did it, was able to initialize the drive and format it
and now it shows

"Thane of Lochaber" wrote:

> You'll need to run diskmgmt.msc and assign it a drive letter before it will
> show up. You may also need to partition and format it if it isn't already.
>
> "PSM." <PSM.@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:07389ED4-37CB-402C-8246-32791BC81F6A@microsoft.com...
> > Dear all, I want to add a new hard drive but the new drive is not showing
> > in
> > explorer:
> >
> > Set up is 1 hard disk and 2 partitions C: & D:
> > Also I have a CD R+W E: and a DVD R+W F:
> > plus the new Hard drive
> >
> > The new drive is set as slave, and in the device manager it is showing and
> > working correctly!!
> >
> > Very frustrating!
>
>
>