recognising a hard drive

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Baron d'IF

I've physically installed a hard drive. I know the physical part of the
installation succeeded because it shows up on Properties. I just can't
access it. It doesn't show up on "this computer" and it has no
designation. A diognostic tool I tried said "unit unidentified".
 
Baron said:
I've physically installed a hard drive. I know the physical part of the
installation succeeded because it shows up on Properties. I just can't
access it. It doesn't show up on "this computer" and it has no
designation. A diognostic tool I tried said "unit unidentified".
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I've checked with diskmgmt.msc and it seems Windows XP treats the hard
drive as "not allocated" and "uninitiated". Any idea how I could
initiate it? Thanks in advance.
 
I've checked with diskmgmt.msc and it seems Windows XP treats the hard
drive as "not allocated" and "uninitiated". Any idea how I could
initiate it? Thanks in advance.
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Right click on the drive there and you should get the options to
initialize, partition, format etc.
 
Rctfreak said:
Right click on the drive there and you should get the options to
initialize, partition, format etc.
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The only options available are are Properties and Help.
 
I should perhaps add that the hard drive in question was taken from a
machine running Windows 2000. Could this be the problem? Perhaps the
file systems are different?
 
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