Mounting.formatting a new drive in Windows XP

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I'm a PC novice trying to help my son install a new drive in his old HP
Pavillion running WindowsXP pro. The drive is a Western Digital 80Gb,
WD800JB. Installed as a slave on the CD/RW bus. The hardware wizard
recognized it and said it was o.k., but it does not show up in "my
computer". Downloaded a drive utility from WD. the drive checks out
fine with no bad sectors.

We have not been able to figure out how to format and partition this
drive. I know this is pretty elementary, but navigating in a windows
environment is difficult for a Mac Dude.

Oddly, a search of the Windows on-line help did not yield info on how
to partition. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

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memyself&I said:
I'm a PC novice trying to help my son install a new drive in his old HP
Pavillion running WindowsXP pro. The drive is a Western Digital 80Gb,
WD800JB. Installed as a slave on the CD/RW bus. The hardware wizard
recognized it and said it was o.k., but it does not show up in "my
computer". Downloaded a drive utility from WD. the drive checks out
fine with no bad sectors.

We have not been able to figure out how to format and partition this
drive. I know this is pretty elementary, but navigating in a windows
environment is difficult for a Mac Dude.

Oddly, a search of the Windows on-line help did not yield info on how
to partition. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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In XP, Start, Control Panel, Administrative Tools,
Computer Management, Disk Management.

The drive should show up as unformatted there. Just partition and format it using that.
 
go to control panel-administrative tools-computer management-storage-disk
management & windows will ask you if you want to run the disk initialization
wizard...say yes, then use disk management to format the drive.
btb
 
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