Hard Drive Recognized(well, sort of...)

[sunbyrn]

Hey, :confused:

I'm a new member with a question regarding my brand new hard drive. i just bought a Western Digital 800JB 80GB hard drive with 8Mb cache as a second drive in my system. While the bootup process seems to detect the new drive just fine, it is not visible anywhere in Windows. I have double checked the jumper settings and nothings seems to make the drive appear in Windows. This is the first time I have tried to add a second drive to any of my systems and I'm unsure of what to try next. Any help wold be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

sunbyrn :cool:

 

[Anti-Trend]

Your new drive needs to be formatted before it can be used by Windows. Go to your control panel (classic version), administrative tools, and choose manage computer. Go to the storage portion of that dialog, and you can pretty much do the whole deal from there. Just format it as NTFS, and you'll be fine.

I realize that my walkthrough is a bit dodgy; it's because I don't use Windows. Let me know if you need more specifics about anything.

-AT

 

[harrack52]

You have to go to Start/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management.

Then click on Disk Management. You should see all your drives there.
Right-click on your drive and choose to make an extended partition (The area representing the disk space will have a black stripe at the top, indicating unnallocated space), on which you will be able to make logical drives, using the same method.