new hard disk drive

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Stobie

Using Windows XP Home Edition - I have replaced my
secondary hard disk with a larger one and although it is
showing up ok in hardware manager it does not show up
under my computer in windows explorer - I assume this is
because it needs to be formatted etc but am unable to
figure out how to do this - any help would be very much
appreciated.

Stobie
 
Right-click on MY COMPUTER and select MANAGE.
Click on DISK MANAGEMENT and in the lower right-hand
window (gray shaded area), right-click on your second drive
and select INITIALIZE DISK.

If that does not work:

Go to Start > Run and type: CMD , and hit enter.
In the Command Prompt window, type: DISKPART , hit enter.
Then type: RESCAN , hit enter.
Try initializing the disk again.


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Nicholas

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| Using Windows XP Home Edition - I have replaced my
| secondary hard disk with a larger one and although it is
| showing up ok in hardware manager it does not show up
| under my computer in windows explorer - I assume this is
| because it needs to be formatted etc but am unable to
| figure out how to do this - any help would be very much
| appreciated.
|
| Stobie
 
I had exactly the same problem, the problem was I had not
partitionned the new disk. go to the disk manager in the
tools administration, right click the disk , then click
on partition. Follow the assistant as you go along than
name it "d" "E" or whatever. You will now see it in my
computer.

Good luck

Guy
 
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