P
Peter
Have you formatted it?
T
Ted Zieglar
Did your hard drive come with instructions on how to set it up? Most all
retail drives do. RTFM and you'll discover that the drive needs to be
partitioned and formatted before Windows can use it.
retail drives do. RTFM and you'll discover that the drive needs to be
partitioned and formatted before Windows can use it.
M
Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)
Thomas
Right click on the 'My Computer' icon and select 'Manage' from the drop down
menu..
You should now see the 'Computer Management' window..
Under the sub heading 'storage', select Disk Management..
OK.. you should see Disk 0, your primary boot drive.. there should also be
an entry for Disk 1.. place your mouse over the grey box that tells you it
is Disk 1.. the one above should read 'basic., report the size and status
shows as 'online'..
With the mouse pointer over the corresponding box for Disk 1, right click
and select the option to 'initialize'..
After this process has finished, you will be able to partition and format
the new drive, and the drive will be given a letter, and status will report
'online'
When you have finished the task, come to the front of the class to tell me
how it all worked out..
Right click on the 'My Computer' icon and select 'Manage' from the drop down
menu..
You should now see the 'Computer Management' window..
Under the sub heading 'storage', select Disk Management..
OK.. you should see Disk 0, your primary boot drive.. there should also be
an entry for Disk 1.. place your mouse over the grey box that tells you it
is Disk 1.. the one above should read 'basic., report the size and status
shows as 'online'..
With the mouse pointer over the corresponding box for Disk 1, right click
and select the option to 'initialize'..
After this process has finished, you will be able to partition and format
the new drive, and the drive will be given a letter, and status will report
'online'
When you have finished the task, come to the front of the class to tell me
how it all worked out..
T
Thomas Hallett
hi
recently i have put a hard drive in my pc and the device manager finds
it but says its not online. there is no icon for it in my computer and
i dont know how to get it to work.
please help. any information would be very much
appriciated
recently i have put a hard drive in my pc and the device manager finds
it but says its not online. there is no icon for it in my computer and
i dont know how to get it to work.
please help. any information would be very much
appriciated
T
Thomas Hallett
Mike said:Thomas
Right click on the 'My Computer' icon and select 'Manage' from the drop
down
menu..
You should now see the 'Computer Management' window..
Under the sub heading 'storage', select Disk Management..
OK.. you should see Disk 0, your primary boot drive.. there should also
be
an entry for Disk 1.. place your mouse over the grey box that tells you
it
is Disk 1.. the one above should read 'basic., report the size and
status
shows as 'online'..
With the mouse pointer over the corresponding box for Disk 1, right
click
and select the option to 'initialize'..
After this process has finished, you will be able to partition and
format
the new drive, and the drive will be given a letter, and status will
report
'online'
When you have finished the task, come to the front of the class to tell
me
how it all worked out..
--
Mike Hall
MVP - Windows Shell/User
"Thomas Hallett" (e-mail address removed) wrote in message
hi
recently i have put a hard drive in my pc and the device manager
finds
it but says its not online. there is no icon for it in my computer
and
i dont know how to get it to work.
please help. any information would be very much
appriciated
Thank you very much Mike your a life saver!!!!!!
T
Thomas Hallett
Ted said:
the hard drive didn't come with a manual, the problems sorted thanks to
Mike Hall, but thanks anyway.
T
Thomas Hallett
Peter said:
hey mate. the problems solved now thanks to Mike Hall, but thanks for
replying to my thread.
M
Mike Hall \(MS-MVP\)
Your welcome.. you get an A- for that as you did have to get some help.. it
would have been an A had you already been to Disk management but not been
able to find the function to initialize.. and an A+ had you not asked for
any help at all..
You do have the right to appeal against the decision, pending the submission
of reasonable evidence..
would have been an A had you already been to Disk management but not been
able to find the function to initialize.. and an A+ had you not asked for
any help at all..
You do have the right to appeal against the decision, pending the submission
of reasonable evidence..
J
John O
pending the submission of reasonable evidence..
Or beer for the teacher.
Or beer for the teacher.