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

[Loren Moline WA7SKT]

Aaron,

I will save this e-mail...great info.

Loren




----Original Message Follows----
From: "Hsu, Aaron (NBC Universal)" <aaron.hsu at nbcuni.com>
Reply-To: "Computers (or other) used for amateur radio, communications,  or 
experimenting" <ham-computers at mailman.qth.net>
To: "I>Ham-Computers" <Ham-Computers at mailman.qth.net>
Subject: [Ham-Computers] RE: Added second hard drive, but.........
Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 15:37:36 -0700

After you install a "new" drive, you need to initialize, partition, and 
format it.  In Windows 2K/XP:

  * Right-click on "My Computer" -> "Properties".  This will bring up the 
Computer Management console.

  * Under "Computer Management" -> "Storage", click on "Disk Management".

  * Windows will start the Disk Management console and might prompt you to 
initialize a new disk.  This will most likely be your new drive.  If it does 
prompt you, go ahead and initialize it (accept the default settings).

  * In the lower right pane, you'll find all the "logical" drives that 
Windows has found.  Find the new one using the drive size as a reference.  
Right-click in the "unallocated" area on that drive and select "New 
Partition".

  * Go through the wizard to create the partition.  The partition type will 
be "Extended", and the size is the size of the drive (unless you want to 
divy it up into multiple drives).  When the partitioning is complete, the 
"unallocated" will change to "Free space".  At this point, you'll need to 
create "logical" partition(s) and "Format" the drive.

  * Right-click on the "Free space" and select "New logical drive".  Go 
through the wizard and create a logical drive using the max size of the 
drive.  Then assign a drive letter to it.  For the file system, select NTFS 
with the Default allocation size.  Change the volume name to whatever you 
want to name this partition.  Then check the "perform a quick format" box 
(unless you want Windows to do a partition verification (can take a while).

When done, the the Disk Manager should show the new drive letter and it's 
formatting progress.  After a few minutes (or hours, if you didn't check the 
"quick" format box), the drive will be ready for use.


If you're using DOS, you'll "FDISK" to partition the drive and then 
"FORMAT".  But, unless you have an updated version of FDISK, it probably 
won't recognize the full capacity of the drive.  Also, FDISK only supports 
FAT32, not NTFS.  This may not matter if you don't wish to use NTFS.


73,

   - Aaron, NN6O


-----Original Message-----
From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
[mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Dave 'Doc' Corio
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 3:13 PM
To: ham-computers at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [Ham-Computers] Added second hard drive, but.........

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.

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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