cannot see HDD on My Computer

[gemini_shooter]

Hi !

I recently installed a HDD as a slave. This HDD was partationed into 3 drives. I formatted each drive (right click on the drive and hit format ). I wanted to join the HDD in to one so I went to " Disk Management " in control Panel and I accidentally deleted all the partationed volumes listed. I deleted all the partation's in the drivw. Now its showing the entire drive as Unallocated.

How can i bring back this drive into my system. I tried uninstalling the drivers and reinstalling them, my device manager detects the HDD but my computer doesn't list it and I cannot get access to it.

Any help would be apprecated

[spyder003]

If it's showing the entire drive as unallocated, you need to format it through Disk Management.

[Cricket]

You deleted all the partitions? Thats why Windows doesn't see the drive now...the hard drive must be partitioned and each partition formatted before Windows can use it.

Cricket

[gemini_shooter]

How do I do that ? If I create a new partation in the unallocated drive and format the new partation I am still left with one remaning unallocated half How do i add it to the drive ?

I am little slow at this stuff sorry ?

[Cricket]

Check out my post in this thread. I have links to Microsoft articles on partitioning and formatting a hard drive with WinXP Disk Management.

Cricket