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Partitioning new slave drive in XP?
A friend bought a new drive that he wants to install as slave drive in a P4 system with XP installed,what is the best approach to partitioning and formatting the drive and what procedure should he follow,if it's set up as slave on primary ide?
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HOCKEY FREAK
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he should be able to format it and partion it in disk managment under admin tools in the control panel...
Zaney123 HTH |
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That's what I thought and suggested,but he said XP didn't see the drive there,I thought because the drive hadn't been partitioned,XP didn't see it,difficult to work on a computer through maybe's and I think so's.
![]() Thank's for your input,ZANEY123. |
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Disk management is under My Computer. Start, Right click My Computer, select Manage.
Chas
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Thank's, Confused.
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HOCKEY FREAK
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i did not see that shortcut either confused,,much easier than going the way i said,,,,,
thanks zaney123 |
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