Trying to add second HDD to Vista Home Premium

[Tbone]

I added a second SATA hard disk drive to my computer and it shows up in BIOS
and it also shows up under "Disk Drives". I cannot see this drive in
Windows Explorer and I cannot figure out how to format it. Disk Management
shows Disk 0 (C drive) and Disk 1 (nothing - 298.09 GB Unallocated). If I
right-click on Disk 1 the only item I can select is "Properties" and "Help".
"New Simple Volume", "New Spanned Volume", and "New Striped Volume" are all
disabled. Does anyone know how I can format this drive with NTFS so that it
shows up in Windows Vista?

I have a Core 2 Duo, ASUS Striker Extreme with NVIDIA nForce drivers
installed. The working drive is a Western Digital Raptor and the second
drive is a Seagate Barracuda.

 

[Terry R.]

On 6/6/2007 5:11 PM On a whim, Tbone pounded out on the keyboard

I added a second SATA hard disk drive to my computer and it shows up in BIOS
and it also shows up under "Disk Drives". I cannot see this drive in
Windows Explorer and I cannot figure out how to format it. Disk Management
shows Disk 0 (C drive) and Disk 1 (nothing - 298.09 GB Unallocated). If I
right-click on Disk 1 the only item I can select is "Properties" and "Help".
"New Simple Volume", "New Spanned Volume", and "New Striped Volume" are all
disabled. Does anyone know how I can format this drive with NTFS so that it
shows up in Windows Vista?

I have a Core 2 Duo, ASUS Striker Extreme with NVIDIA nForce drivers
installed. The working drive is a Western Digital Raptor and the second
drive is a Seagate Barracuda.

Make sure all the RAID options in the BIOS are disabled. It sounds like
they are not.

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[Roberto de Corneille]

On 6/6/2007 5:11 PM On a whim, Tbone pounded out on the keyboard


Make sure all the RAID options in the BIOS are disabled. It sounds like
they are not.

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You may have to initialize the new HDD:
Backup Operator or Administrator is the minimum membership required.

To initialize new disks

1.. In Disk Management, right-click the disk you want to initialize, and
then click Initialize Disk.

2.. In the Initialize Disk dialog box, select the disk(s) to initialize.
You can select whether to use the master boot record (MBR) or GUID partition
table (GPT) partition style.

Note
The disk is initialized as a basic disk.


Additional considerations
a.. New disks appear as Not Initialized. Before you can use a disk, you
must first initialize it. If you start Disk Management after adding a disk,
the Initialize Disk Wizard appears so you can initialize the disk.

rgds
b.. Roberto

 

[Tbone]

On 6/6/2007 5:11 PM On a whim, Tbone pounded out on the keyboard
Make sure all the RAID options in the BIOS are disabled. It sounds like
they are not.

I have made sure that they are all disabled and I still have the same
problem.

 

[Tbone]

You may have to initialize the new HDD:
Backup Operator or Administrator is the minimum membership required.

To initialize new disks

1.. In Disk Management, right-click the disk you want to initialize, and
then click Initialize Disk.

2.. In the Initialize Disk dialog box, select the disk(s) to initialize.
You can select whether to use the master boot record (MBR) or GUID
partition
table (GPT) partition style.

Note
The disk is initialized as a basic disk.


Additional considerations
a.. New disks appear as Not Initialized. Before you can use a disk, you
must first initialize it. If you start Disk Management after adding a
disk,
the Initialize Disk Wizard appears so you can initialize the disk.

The only options available when I right-click on the disk in Disk Management
is "Help" and "Properties".

 

[Tbone]

You may have to initialize the new HDD:
Backup Operator or Administrator is the minimum membership required.

To initialize new disks

1.. In Disk Management, right-click the disk you want to initialize, and
then click Initialize Disk.

2.. In the Initialize Disk dialog box, select the disk(s) to initialize.
You can select whether to use the master boot record (MBR) or GUID
partition
table (GPT) partition style.

Note
The disk is initialized as a basic disk.


Additional considerations
a.. New disks appear as Not Initialized. Before you can use a disk, you
must first initialize it. If you start Disk Management after adding a
disk,
the Initialize Disk Wizard appears so you can initialize the disk.

rgds
b.. Roberto

I have solved the issue and I would like to make the solution available for
those of you who happen to come across this in your searches. Roberto is
correct, the new drive must be "initialized" in Vista using Disk Management.
However, this is not intuitive at all. Disk Management lists your disks at
the bottom area of the screen. On the left panel it will say "Disk 0",
"Disk 1", etc. On the right panel it will say "Vista C: Healthy" (or
something similar). You have to actually right click on the left panel
where it says "Disk 0" to get the option to initialize the disk. If you
right click on the right panel then the "Initialize" option is not there and
every other option is disabled.