New hard drive won't initialize

[Mike Greaves]

I am replacing a hard drive (slave) on a Win XP Home
machine. POST recognises the drive and Properties show it
working properly, but Disk management module gives volume
status Not Initialized and the wizard won't run - right
click does not show Initialize (only New Partition greyed
out).

Can anyone help please?

 

[Zagan]

Go back into disk Management, and create a Primary
partition on the new drive, then format it.

 

[Frank]

I am replacing a hard drive (slave) on a Win XP Home
machine. POST recognises the drive and Properties show it
working properly, but Disk management module gives volume
status Not Initialized and the wizard won't run - right
click does not show Initialize (only New Partition greyed
out).

Can anyone help please?

Start > Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Computer Management >
Disk Management >
Here you will have to partition and format and assign a drive letter.
See help for more explicit information.

 

[Guest]

I can't create primary partition as the option is greyed out on menu. Disk is
a DiamondMax Plus 8 40 GB, and it passes all Maxtor's diagnostic software
tests.

 

[Guest]

I can't create a partition as the option is greyed out, that's the problem.

 

[Len]

Have you tried using Maxtor SW to partition and format the drive? I believe
they have this on their site as well.

FWIW, Len

 

[Guest]

Thanks, I'll try that

Have you tried using Maxtor SW to partition and format the drive? I believe
they have this on their site as well.

FWIW, Len