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by **David Whi** » Mon, 10 Dec 2001 17:43:00

Hi, since you guys upgrade your computers often, I thought you might be able to
help me, I have a computer with 2 hard drives, one runs off of the IDE on the
motherboard, and the other is pluged into a ATA100 PCI card, both work fine.
Well today I bought a 3rd hard drive and I want it to be my slave HD on the
ATA100 PCI card, well I put it in the computer fine, I set the first HD on
Primary, and the new one on slave, I boot up the computer and I goto my
computer and the new hard drive does not show up, so I goto my Device manager
and I see that it is listed in the menu. So im trying to figure out why it
shows up in the device menu, but not the my computer directory. The 2 other HD
still work fine. Im running Windows XP. Any help is appreciated.

Thanx,
David

by **STP** » Mon, 10 Dec 2001 19:58:14

Did you run Fdisk to partition it and then format it yet?

by **Tony Rickar** » Mon, 10 Dec 2001 23:31:23

Control Panel, Performance & Maintenance, Administrative Tools, Computer
Management, Disk Management.

There you can partition the disk up for the operating system (like fdisk in
Dos/Win9X)

Then you will see it in My Computer/Explorer to format it.

Cheers

Tony

> Hi, since you guys upgrade your computers often, I thought you might be
able to
> help me, I have a computer with 2 hard drives, one runs off of the IDE on
the
> motherboard, and the other is pluged into a ATA100 PCI card, both work
fine.
> Well today I bought a 3rd hard drive and I want it to be my slave HD on
the
> ATA100 PCI card, well I put it in the computer fine, I set the first HD on
> Primary, and the new one on slave, I boot up the computer and I goto my
> computer and the new hard drive does not show up, so I goto my Device
manager
> and I see that it is listed in the menu. So im trying to figure out why
it
> shows up in the device menu, but not the my computer directory. The 2
other HD
> still work fine. Im running Windows XP. Any help is appreciated.

> Thanx,
> David

by **Rick Catto** » Tue, 11 Dec 2001 00:02:42

Since I'm not running XP this may or may not be helpful...

Are you running TweakUI? I had a similar problem when I put in a 2nd HD
recently, and it took me many, many hours to realise that when running
TweakUI, there's a "My Computer" tab - make sure that the drive you
installed is checked in this list, otherwise it will be prevented from
showing up.

Good luck!

Rick.

by **David Whi** » Tue, 11 Dec 2001 04:16:22

What is FDISK and how do I use it??

David

by **Rafe McAulif** » Tue, 11 Dec 2001 19:22:32

You must use fdisk (or similar) to partition and then format the
drive. Not sure how dos goes in Win XP tho. in dos, you just type
"fdisk" and see the menu system. I don't think you have that option in
XP though, so I can't advise on that.

Rafe Mc

by **Mario Petrinovi** » Tue, 11 Dec 2001 22:16:43

I'm not sure, but I think you can do it by booting from
XP cd.

> You must use fdisk (or similar) to partition and then format the
> drive. Not sure how dos goes in Win XP tho. in dos, you just type
> "fdisk" and see the menu system. I don't think you have that option in
> XP though, so I can't advise on that.

> Rafe Mc

> >>Did you run Fdisk to partition it and then format it yet?

> >What is FDISK and how do I use it??

> >David

by **Dave Henr** » Tue, 11 Dec 2001 23:11:05

His hard drive package should include a floppy that does that for him.
But Fdisk won't work if his bios and OS are not seeing the drive...
Fdisk is an EXTREMELY powerful utility. MAKE SURE IF YOU USE IT THAT YOU
ARE POINTING TO THE CORRECT DRIVE. If you use Fdisk improperly, you could
wipe out your boot drive...sayonara windows...
dave henrie

> You must use fdisk (or similar) to partition and then format the
> drive. Not sure how dos goes in Win XP tho. in dos, you just type
> "fdisk" and see the menu system. I don't think you have that option in
> XP though, so I can't advise on that.

> Rafe Mc

> >>Did you run Fdisk to partition it and then format it yet?

> >What is FDISK and how do I use it??

> >David

by **STP** » Wed, 12 Dec 2001 02:12:51

He could just run fdisk from a boot floppy, that's if he made one under
Win98. But, under XP he should be able to do it right from in WinXP. Just go
to control panel, administrative tools, open computer management, under
storage select Disk Management, select new hardrive and then right click to
see your options.

by **STP** » Wed, 12 Dec 2001 02:17:01

He should be able to do it from right in XP. It's all graphical and quite
easy to do under XP. Only things is that all my drives are already
partitioned and formatted so I don't get the option to create a partion,
just destroy, so I can 't walk him through it without seeing the options
myself. As another poster said he should be able to do it by booting to the
XP cdrom too. This method is simpler than the cryptic Fdisk also.

by **na_bike** » Wed, 12 Dec 2001 05:11:43

Fdisk doesn't exist in XP.

Instead, you go into Control Panel -> Performance and maintenance ->
Administrative tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management

There the disks are named Disk 0, 1, 2, ... plus CD-drives

The blocks represents partitions and the drive you just added should
have a big grey one, indicating no partition. Right click it and add a
partition. A drive letter should appear in "My computer" after that.
Right click it there and format it. Done!

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