Formatting a new hard disk

[Guest]

I am trying to install a new Hard drive. The new one is 160 GByte the old one
is 32 Gbyte. I have linked the unformatted PATA IDE as a slave.

1. Windows recognises the drive - not as a hard disk but as a removeable
drive and asks for a disk to be inserted. Is there anything I can do to get
around this?

2. If I can get around the first problem will the XP format command create
a formatted drive that I will be able to boot from it when I rmove the old
drive and make it the master? I appreciate I will need to make an image of
the old drive on teh new one, a simple copy command will not do the job.

 

[BruceM]

Look in Control Panel/Admin Tools/Comp Management/Disk Management/
& come back & tell us if you see disk0, disk1 or whatever?

 

[Harry Ohrn]

It is possible that the new drive needs to be partitioned first. All drives
must have at least one partition, which can encompass the entire drive,
before it can be formatted. Check here http://preview.tinyurl.com/3djv62
(click the proceed to link)

Another issue could be with the jumper setting on your primary master. Some
hard drives require that when you add a slave the master must be set to
Master with Slave or set to CS. I believe Western Digital drives require
this and it can drive you crazy until you properly re-jumper the Master.
Check your hard drive manufacturer's site or the legend on the hard drive
label (requires removing the drive to take a look)