adding and formating a new drive, need help

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Glenn Kenney

Hi all,

I'm adding a 120 g HD to my windows XP so that I can get my home movies onto
DVDs. My main drive is a WD 40 g drive. My bios is showing the drive as
120g so it looks like the system "sees" it right.

In the win 98 days I use to use the fdisk command from my bootup disc to set
up a second drive then the format command. How do I format this disc with
WinXP and have it recognize it as a 120g local drive?

Any help here would be great.
 
Plug it into the system and boot up.
Go to Control Panel and Administrative Tools, then Computer Management.
On the left panel click Disk Management under the Storage section. On the
top right you will see your partitions, and in the bottom right you will see
your drives. Right click the unpartitioned area of the 120GB disk and create
the partitions desired. You can then format them all in Windows and I don't
think you even need to restart.

Much simpler than screwing around in fdisk!
 
Glenn Kenney said:
Hi all,

I'm adding a 120 g HD to my windows XP so that I can get my home movies
onto
DVDs. My main drive is a WD 40 g drive. My bios is showing the drive as
120g so it looks like the system "sees" it right.

In the win 98 days I use to use the fdisk command from my bootup disc to
set
up a second drive then the format command. How do I format this disc with
WinXP and have it recognize it as a 120g local drive?

Any help here would be great.
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I may be wrong, but I don't think XP will see the drive until it has
been partitioned in some way (at least that happened to me when I put a
non-partitioned drive in an XP machine). I hunted high and low for a
partitioning option, but could not find one. Either use an up-to-date
version of Fdisk that can see drives of that size or some other
partitioning software.

Once partitioned it should show up in XP and then all you need to do is
right click on the drive and select 'format'.

Also, I think some motherboards have difficulty with seeing the whole of
a large hard drive. Not sure if this is when they get over the 137GB
size though. However, AIUI, it shouldn't affect XP's ability to see the
drive in full, hopefully.
 
| I'm adding a 120 g HD to my windows XP so that I can get my home movies onto
| DVDs. My main drive is a WD 40 g drive. My bios is showing the drive as
| 120g so it looks like the system "sees" it right.
|
| In the win 98 days I use to use the fdisk command from my bootup disc to set
| up a second drive then the format command. How do I format this disc with
| WinXP and have it recognize it as a 120g local drive?

With your new hard drive installed, right click on My Computer and select
Manage. Then click on Disk Management. Your new drive will show up as "Disk 1"
if the only other hard drive you have installed is the WD 40G (that should be
"Disk 0").

Right click on Disk 1. You will probably have to initialize as the first step.
Once the drive is initialized, the area that represents the drive will show as
unalloted or something similar. Right click on that area and choose Partition.
You'll be able to do either one or several partitions. After you've partitioned
the disk, right click on the representation of the partition(s) and choose
Format. With any partition larger than 32G, NTFS will be the only choice
offered.

Larc



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Hi all,

I'm adding a 120 g HD to my windows XP so that I can get my home movies onto
DVDs. My main drive is a WD 40 g drive. My bios is showing the drive as
120g so it looks like the system "sees" it right.

In the win 98 days I use to use the fdisk command from my bootup disc to set
up a second drive then the format command. How do I format this disc with
WinXP and have it recognize it as a 120g local drive?

Any help here would be great.
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