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| 186388 | 2003-10-25 01:32:00 | I have just added a second HDD (Seagate Barracuda V 120 GB) to a P4 machine running XP Home. The BIOS recognises the drive during the self test phase, but XP is ignoring it. What do I do? |
RogerF (4582) | ||
| 186389 | 2003-10-25 02:19:00 | How do you know that Win XP is "ignoring" it? Isn't it showing up at all in Disk Management? Have the jumpers been set to the correct positions? | Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 186390 | 2003-10-25 02:20:00 | Windows won't recognise it unless it is partitioned and formatted. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 186391 | 2003-10-25 04:47:00 | > Windows won't recognise it unless it is partitioned and formatted. True, but it should still show in Disk Management so the job can be done in there. |
Fire-and-Ice (3910) | ||
| 186392 | 2003-10-25 04:59:00 | Just what they said make sure your jumpers are correct in the disk is formatted and partitioned to NTFS could help. Otherwise it is just Windows being a BiArch And only bying the latest version of Windows can help you.;-) |
hamstar (4) | ||
| 186393 | 2003-10-25 18:38:00 | Got it guys - Drive wasn't partitioned or formatted - it now has two partitions and is busy formatting them. Last time I had to do this I used fdisk and format c:/s Expected that XP would have more "smarts" than it does to tell me what was wrong. Still, I have now been introduced to the delights of the "manage" function in XP. Many thanks to all. |
RogerF (4582) | ||
| 186394 | 2003-10-26 01:49:00 | Drive is now partitioned and formatted. XP Disk Management showes a Healthy (System) NTFS C: drive, and also shows two Healthy NTFS drives E: and F: In a DOS Box I can copy files from C: to E: and F:, from E: to F: and vice versa. I have rebooted a number of times, but Explorer / My Computer still ignores the new logical drives and doesn't show they exist. Any ideas? |
RogerF (4582) | ||
| 186395 | 2003-10-26 01:52:00 | View> Refresh ? It's got to be something stupidly simple lioke that. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 186396 | 2003-10-26 02:45:00 | Do you have Tweak UI installed? There is option in this to show or hide drives. Fooled me when I added an extra HD. Bye |
Peter H (220) | ||
| 186397 | 2003-10-26 05:07:00 | You were right! View / Refresh did nothing But I installed Powertoys for XP which has TweakUI in it, ticked E: and F: as being available (the programme already new they were there, as did the Disk Management applet) and hey presto - Explorer now recognises them. Many thanks. |
RogerF (4582) | ||
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