Need help partitioning & formatting a second SATA hdd

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Hello! I have installed the sata drive from my wife's computer into
mine. I would like to use it for backups and some media storage, but I
wanted to ensure it was spotless and in good working order first.

Her computer had a serious glitch, meaning we couldn't get it to boot
into XP, the recovery disk from Gateway said that it found an active
recovery partition and would start from that, then it would lock up
after it copied only a few files. In short, she has a new win-7 compy
now.

After installing the drive in my computer, it appears normal in My
Computer, and I have Admin rights, but when I try to format, it says I
don't have permission.

I read the help online at MS Win XP support site about using Fdisk and
Format, but apparently I do not have Fdisk, since the command is
unrecognized.

Should I simply download Fdisk from somewhere and use the command line
to run it on my new "G:" drive?

I'm not sure what specs are needed to help with this problem, please let
me know if this is not enough:

Gateway model GT5012, Pentium D 820, 4 gigs DDR2 ram, and now two 250 GB
SATA, each 7200 rpm w/ 8 MB cache. Western Digital brand, I think.
I'm running MS Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005, with XP sp3 and all
updates installed automatically.

TIA!
 
No dont download anything
Use Disk Management, Adminastrative Tools in Control Panel, to format/delet
the partion and create a new one.
Ensure you are working on the correct disk
 
DL said:
No dont download anything
Use Disk Management, Adminastrative Tools in Control Panel, to format/delet
the partion and create a new one.
Ensure you are working on the correct disk
Click to expand...

(Here is a picture of the Disk Management controls.)

http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/Disk_Management_XP.gif

One disk will be your GT5012 boot disk. The other disk
will be the disk you added from your wife's computer.
You can delete partitions in there, but only do so, if
all of your wife's data has been copied to the new
Win7 computer. Then you can create a new partition,
spanning the whole disk if you want.

The "Take Ownership" item in the Start:Help and Support,
would help you access things on a foreign disk. Go to
Help and Support, and type those two words in the search
box for more info. If you want to recover some of your
wife's files, you could try that.

Paul
 
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