What do you mean you can't see it? It isn't visible in Windows Explorer?
What about in Disk Manager? What name did you give the partition? If its
called P$ then remove the $.
It is not visible in explorer. It is not visible in "My Computer". I don't
have "Disk Manager." Is there another name for it in System Tools or
Administrative Tools? The name does not include a $ sign.
You can hide (and unhide) volume letters using tweakuiXP (free download
from MS powertoys site). If it isn't yet formatted, it will only show in
disk management, not in explorer (but then I'd expect it not to have a
drive letter).
Ok. I right click and choose "manage". And that's the same as "disk
manager". Gotcha.
I also found the problem -- I had made the partition with Partition Magic.
But I guess I failed to give it a drive letter. So I did that and now I can
work with the partition.
Not quite - manage opens compmgmt.msc .. one of the options under that
is disk manager (exactly what you get depends on the version of XP you
are running, and who you are .. but typically you'll have event viewer,
device manager, disk manager, removable storage manager, services
manager, and sundry others).
I also found the problem -- I had made the partition with Partition Magic.
But I guess I failed to give it a drive letter. So I did that and now I can
work with the partition.
Glad to hear it. In future things work much saner if you just use disk
manager to create/delete/format partitions (except for those things that
only PM can do .. NTFS->FAT32 conversion, and moving or resizing
existing partitions for instance).
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