hard drive problems

[Guest]

installation of a 2nd hard drive? It's in, however the device manager sees it but the type is unknown, the status is not initialized. It's a MAXTOR 80gb. Can't figure this one out.Original is set to master, this new one is set to slave. Thanks

 

[Haus]

Hello
Have you partitioned and formatted the drive.

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installation of a 2nd hard drive? It's in, however the device manager sees

it but the type is unknown, the status is not initialized. It's a MAXTOR
80gb. Can't figure this one out.Original is set to master, this new one is
set to slave. Thanks!

 

[Jim Macklin]

Right click MY Computer, select manage. The Disk management
and partition and format the drive.


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| installation of a 2nd hard drive? It's in, however the
device manager sees it but the type is unknown, the status
is not initialized. It's a MAXTOR 80gb. Can't figure this
one out.Original is set to master, this new one is set to
slave. Thanks!
|

 

[Guest]

MAxtor drives [retail pack] come with excellent installation instructions and a CD ROM that you use to initialise, partition and format

It even allows cloning of old HDD to new and then provides instruction on how to reconfigure so that you can start runnning XP on the new drive

If you bought a retail disk, then look to that guide

Otherwise you need to work with Disk Management tools and initialise, partition and format

After the disk is correctly formatted XP will assign a drive letter

This has always been the case with new HDDs and any Windows Op Sys. Old Win 98 startup disks had the FDISK utility which provided the same functions. You could get one of these and boot up your PC if you are more comfortable working in DOS.