NEW SATA DRIVE RECOGNIZED BUT UNUSABLE?????

[The MAN]

I got a new Samsung HD502HJ, 500Gig SATA harddrive for my HP
Compaq d530 CMT, which
has a Pentium 4 @ 3GHz.

The drive was recognized by the BIOS upon turn-on, but in Windows
XP, there was
no letter designator for the drive, and it was missing in the windows
explorer. I looked in
the Device manager, and it's there under the harddrives section. It
says that the device
is "working properly", but it's clearly not. When i populate the
volume, 476937 Megs shows
up as the capacity, but the volume is blank, and no partition.

So I tried to FDISK it using an old Windows ME start-up floppy
disk, but this
drive does not appear under the command prompt, so i couldn't format
the disk.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance......

 

[Paul]

I got a new Samsung HD502HJ, 500Gig SATA harddrive for my HP
Compaq d530 CMT, which
has a Pentium 4 @ 3GHz.

The drive was recognized by the BIOS upon turn-on, but in Windows
XP, there was
no letter designator for the drive, and it was missing in the windows
explorer. I looked in
the Device manager, and it's there under the harddrives section. It
says that the device
is "working properly", but it's clearly not. When i populate the
volume, 476937 Megs shows
up as the capacity, but the volume is blank, and no partition.

So I tried to FDISK it using an old Windows ME start-up floppy
disk, but this
drive does not appear under the command prompt, so i couldn't format
the disk.

Can anyone help me?

Thanks in advance......

You probably need to right-click in the empty space next
to the Drive number in Disk Management, and use the
pop-up menu to make a new partition.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

Here, someone has right-clicked on the empty "Disk 0" and
will be using the menu to create a new partition. There might
even be an opportunity to put a drive letter on it, while
setting that up.

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6976/69317438yv7.png

The Disk info should say "Basic". You don't want a Dynamic Disk.
This picture shows Disk Management with a Dynamic Disk instead
of Basic.

http://www.pc1news.com/articles-img/original/SP32-20040101-231716.gif

Paul

 

[The MAN]

You probably need to right-click in the empty space next
to the Drive number in Disk Management, and use the
pop-up menu to make a new partition.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

Here, someone has right-clicked on the empty "Disk 0" and
will be using the menu to create a new partition. There might
even be an opportunity to put a drive letter on it, while
setting that up.

http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6976/69317438yv7.png

The Disk info should say "Basic". You don't want a Dynamic Disk.
This picture shows Disk Management with a Dynamic Disk instead
of Basic.

http://www.pc1news.com/articles-img/original/SP32-20040101-231716.gif

Wow. Perfect! Thanks a million, Paul. You are a life
saver!!!

It works great. Never used the Disk Management before......