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Computer issues...help? [message #60071]

Thu, 01 January 2004 03:37

sniper12345
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Today I bought a new hard drive because my old one was running out of space. I installed it alright, did everything alright, and it came out alright. The only problem is that the drive does not appear in My Computer or anything. The BIOS setup shows the HD, the hardware manager in XP shows it too, but I cannot select it or anything...I can't defrag it, clean it, format it or do anything because it doesn't seems to exist.

My computer works fine, it's just that I can't seem to install the drive.

Any help/tips?

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Computer issues...help? [message #60073]

Thu, 01 January 2004 04:44

YSLMuffins
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Have you tried formatting it in DOS?

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Computer issues...help? [message #60075]

Thu, 01 January 2004 05:34

Weirdo
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Your problem is not that it's not formatted.

That's already step 2.

Stap 1 is to make partitons.

You can use this with the dos Program Fdisk, or whatever tools XP deliver.
And of course there are more (better) programs on the net to make partitons.

hope this helps.

After this XP will find the HD then step 2 is formatting it.

Good luck

Size doesn't matter.

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Computer issues...help? [message #60083]

Thu, 01 January 2004 08:33

sniper12345
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Hmmm....that's a good idea. Do you know any good tools avaliable in XP or on the net instead of Fdisk?

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Computer issues...help? [message #60090]

Thu, 01 January 2004 09:26

Weirdo
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I have no experience with anyother tool myself then the linux partition manager and fdisk. Fdisk isn't that hard to use, but I don't know if XP still has the program.

Maybe try http://www.download.com or anything for special tools.

Size doesn't matter.

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