adding a secondary scsi drive

[kamel medragh]

Hi,
I added a 18.2 compaq scsi hard drive to a compaq
proliant 800 server. I am using windows 2000 server.
I cannot format the hard drive, and cannot see it listed
in my computer.
I tried to go to computer management,than disk
management.The drive is listed. Trying to format it is
giving me a message to ENABLE PARTITION/VOLUME.
How to get to enable partition/volume.
Thank you for any help than you can provide to be able to
format the secondary drive.

 

[Overlord]

I always do a low level format thru the card bios first.
Ya never know when the drive has been thru some odd situations.
Ya can't high level format it until ya get it partitioned, which
occasionally needs a reboot afterwards to give it a drive letter.

No partitioning = no drive letter = no drive in Winders explorer = no
formatting.

Are you saying you can't right click on the volume and partition it?
Generally speaking, I LLF the drive in the SCSI bios, let it boot to
windows, right click on the driveletterless volume in disk management,
let windows write a signature; ie partition it as a basic NTFS disk,
and then right click it to format it. Never had a problem that way.

Hi,
I added a 18.2 compaq scsi hard drive to a compaq
proliant 800 server. I am using windows 2000 server.
I cannot format the hard drive, and cannot see it listed
in my computer.
I tried to go to computer management,than disk
management.The drive is listed. Trying to format it is
giving me a message to ENABLE PARTITION/VOLUME.
How to get to enable partition/volume.
Thank you for any help than you can provide to be able to
format the secondary drive.

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