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

[WA5CAB at cs.com]

Or if the new drive came with a utility disk or CD, look on it.  I always 
feel safer using the drive manufacturer's software to partition and format with.  
When I was using all Maxtor EIDE drives, I used Maxtor's utility to set the 
drives up.  When I recently switched over to a bunch of WD SATA drives, I used 
what WD provided.  Never had any problems  getting the drives up.  

But if whoever made your drive didn't provide a management utility, you'll 
have to as Loren says use the generic FDISK to partition it before you can 
FORMAT it.

In a message dated 7/16/2007 5:31:57 PM Central Daylight Time, 
lmoline at hotmail.com writes: 
> Dave,
> 
> You may need tom run FDISK and partition the drive and then format.
> 
> 
> 
> 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
> 
> 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.
> 

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