Second Hard Drive

[Rob Floyd]

I have replaced a second HD from a 40gig to a 120gig. The
Bios detects and loads it. Win XP home says installing
new drive. The problem is that MY Computor does not shoe
the drive.

Help please.

 

[Guest]

You might go to Start, Run and type compmgmt.msc /s
The go to Disk Management and see if the drive shows to be
ACTIVE. Be careful in Disk Management and if you are
uncertain how to proceed - STOP - and do some research.
Or re-post.
Good Luck !

 

[Rich Barry]

If it shows up in Disk Management then rt click and assign it a drive
letter.

 

[DUH]

Have you partitioned and formatted it?

 

[Guest]

HI

Right click My computer, click Manage, click Disk Management
In the lower right pane, you can see Disk 0 and Disk 1
Disk 1 is the new slave drive. Right click on it and select initialize drive, click OK
Right click on the drive volume and select format and partition the drive. You can format it to one single NTFS drive or format it to several partitions with different volume sizes. (select default cluster size, i.e. 4 KB
If you format it to FAT32, the largest size of the partition is limited to 32GB
You can also re-assign the drive letters afterwards. (right click on the partition and change the drive letter

Pete


----- Rob Floyd wrote: ----

I have replaced a second HD from a 40gig to a 120gig. The
Bios detects and loads it. Win XP home says installing
new drive. The problem is that MY Computor does not shoe
the drive

Help please