Sata Drive

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Bill McAllister

I installed a Sata drive on my desktop. Then installed Vista. Explorer
dosen't see my Sata drive. However disk manager does. How do I get
Explorer to see it?

Bill Mc
 
Bill said:
I installed a Sata drive on my desktop. Then installed Vista. Explorer
dosen't see my Sata drive. However disk manager does. How do I get
Explorer to see it?
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Did you remember to partition and format it? If not, you need to do so.
You can do this from Disk Management.


Malke
 
Bill McAllister said:
I installed a Sata drive on my desktop. Then installed Vista. Explorer
dosen't see my Sata drive. However disk manager does. How do I get
Explorer to see it?
Click to expand...

Use Disk Manager to install (and format) at least one partition.
"Drive letters" are assigned to partitions, not drives.
 
Hi, Bill.

Use Disk Management (diskmgmt.msc) to create one or more partitions on the
hard drive and format the partition(s) and assign drive letter(s).

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP
(Running Windows Live Mail 2008 in Vista Ultimate x64)
 
I installed a Sata drive on my desktop. Then installed Vista. Explorer
dosen't see my Sata drive. However disk manager does. How do I get
Explorer to see it?
Click to expand...


Partition and format it. You need to do that with any new drive, SATA
or otherwise, before it can be used.
 
I found the Disk Manager and am formating the drive. How do I make it the
primary drive?
I have a IE drive and it is C.

Bill Mc
 
Bill McAllister said:
I installed a Sata drive on my desktop. Then installed Vista. Explorer
doesn't see my Sate drive. However disk manager does. How do I get
Explorer to see it?

Bill Mc
Click to expand...

Bill, RUN, Don't Walk, to your nearest comp repair shop, you are not ready
to do anything as complex as adding a drive to your system.
 
Hello Steve:
Of all the posts I've read in Vista newsgroups, your answer to this
particular question deserves to have a check mark for providing the correct
answer!

xiowan......in tucson
 

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