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03-02-2004, 08:28 PM
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Hard drive install problems
OK bare with me I am a newbie. I just built my 1st pc by myself last week. I am trying to now install a sencond new hard drive (WD 160gig 7200RPM 8mb Cache) as Matsre Drive on EIDE Channel #2. I have ot on the end of the cable and set to cable select. Started PC and went into Bios. Bios detected it fine. I started the Pc again with the WD CD and it let me set it as a storage drive partition and is NTSF but I didn't see a option to format it on the CD. Now here is where I am lost Formating it....
I have WINDOWS XP SP1 installed on my Master Drive on EIDE Channel 1 and my DVD Burner as Slave on same EIDE chain. WINDOWS formated and installed itself on my Master 160gig WD drive. But I can't seem to figure out how to fromat my 2nd 160 gig drive. I load windows and it shows nothing in my computer. But If I load Disk management it shows up there but as DISK 0 no drive letter at all. I tried booting with the WIN XP disk and acting like I was going to do a install to see if it would show it there and have windows format it. But during that process it only see Drive C: I installed Partition magic and it sees it as a drive2 partitioned NTSF and is a Logical drive but has no drive letter and it see the 152gigs of the drive. What do I need to do to get this thing formated and a drive letter. System specs. Asus A7N8X - E Deluxe mobo AMD 2500+ Barton Kingston 256 MB DDR Pc 3200 x 2 = 512mb dual channel mode EIDE #1 Master C: Drive WD 160 gig 7200RPM 8mb Cache Slave D: Drive Sony 8X DVD +/- R/RW EIDE #2 WD160 gig 7200RPM 8mb Cache Video Card EVGA GeForce FX 5200 128mb DDR Skyhawk ATX Case 450Watt ATX PSU WINDOWS XP PRO SPK1 Thanks for any help... |
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03-02-2004, 08:31 PM
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In disk management, right click on the allocated space and allocate it, then do the same for formatting.
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03-02-2004, 09:01 PM
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Ok wow... I was looking in Disk Management then I was clicking under Devce Manager ... I finally saw the Disk Managment section and did what you said asaigned it drive E: and formated thanks for your help and quick responce.
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