[Ham-Computers] Added second hard drive, but.........

[Dave 'Doc' Corio]

    Sounds about right, but if I can't "see" the drive, how do I set the 
command to do that? I don't know if the drive is 'F', 'G', or what.

Dave


Loren Moline WA7SKT wrote:
> Dave,
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> You may need tom run FDISK and partition the drive and then format.
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> Loren
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> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: Dave 'Doc' Corio <dcorio at zitomedia.net>
> Reply-To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, 
> communications,  or experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
> To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
> Subject: [Ham-Computers] Added second hard drive, but.........
> Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:13:05 -0400
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> Just added a second SATA hard drive to my Gateway Core Duo PC and Win 
> XP Pro, but I can't seem to find it. When I first booted up, I got the 
> little message that reported that it had found new hardware (disk 
> drive) But can't find it in My Computer or Explorer. In Control 
> Panel/System/Hardware I can see it listed, and it shows working fine, 
> but cannot find it in order to format it and use it. It also shows up 
> in the BIOS no problem.
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> Only thing I can think of is that I plugged it into the SATA port on 
> the motherboard immediately adjacent to the primary hard drive port. 
> Could it be that I need to rrelocate that, or am I simply missing 
> something painfully obvious? I rebooted a second time, but did not get 
> the "new hardware" notification, and still can't see the drive.
>
> Thanks in advance es 73
> Dave
> KB3MOW
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