Windows XP home does not.??? I have tried the installation wizard
to try and get Windows XP to recognise and install. But failure over
and over!!?? What do I do now??
I'm still no closer ! I've upgraded my BIOS successfully but to no
effect??!! The Windows XP still does not recognise the fact that an
additional HD has been installed yet the CMOS recognises it as from the
beginning of this frustrating exercise! What now?? Are there CMOS and/or
BIOS and/or XP settings that I need to change? I'm not sure I understand the
floopy boot disk, what floppy boot disk?
Have mercy!
Ramson dying/barely breathing!
Ramson:
1. I assume that when you installed your 80 GB HD it was a virgin disk,
i.e., not partitioned/formatted.
2. Ordinarily, after a unpartitioned/unformatted HD is installed, the
Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard dialog box will automatically appear upon
bootup or will when you access the Disk Management utility (Start > Control
Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management). Is
this what you meant when you referred to the "installation wizard"? If so,
what precisely occurred when you followed the steps within the I&CDW? What
do you mean when you state you state you had "failure over and over". Error
messages of one kind or another?
3. You do understand that you need to partition and format this drive
through the Disk Management utility, do you not? And that the Initialize and
Convert Disk Wizard is the first step in the process, right?
4. The reference to the bootable floppy disk one of the responders made was
to a Windows98/Me startup disk or similar bootable floppy disk. You can use
such a disk to partition/format your 80 GB HD but this will result in
establishing a FAT32 file system, not the NTFS file system which is the more
desirable file system in a WinXP environment. There's no need to use a
bootable floppy disk to partition/format your HD.
Please give the precise detailed steps you undertook to partition and format
your new HD. Statements such as "failure over and over" and general pleas
for help are not useful to those of us who might help you solve your
problem.
Art
Entering Setup upon turning the computer on, and then going to CMOS, I see my new Primary Slave Hard Drive, all 81gb of it. Then I exit setup and the computer continues onto Windows XP. Then onto (Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management > Disk Management), NO NEW HARD DRIVE DETECTED
