[ereincornwall]

Hi, I was re-installing windows xp yesterday, i had my external hard-disk installed, and accidently deleted all the data, the machine will not recognise the hard disk, it never came with a installation cd? any ideas???

Thanks

L

[Wolfeymole]

Were you trying to install XP to the external HDD?
If your BIOS does not support booting from USB then you won't get anywhere.
More info please.

[ereincornwall]

Hi, No im not trying to install windows xp on the externa hard disk, ive already installed it onto the main pc hard disk, i just need to make the external drive work. On the xp setup where you can decide where and what you want to do ie, partitions etc, i accidently deleted my external hard disk. now it wont load. and i never had a disk for the external hard disk? any ideas would be great?

its a external enclosure i think name of Spire!!!

Thanks in advance.

[Wolfeymole]

Ok
So you have XP sitting pretty on you main internal HDD yes?
You want to use the external for storage and you may want to partition it?

Have a look at this, but first you will need to format the external drive using Disk Management.

http://www.thecomputerforums.co.uk/f...oning-xp-4497/

[ereincornwall]

Okay, how do i do this?

xp is fine on the main system, i just need the main pc to recognise the external drive.

Thanks Lawrie

[Wolfeymole]

Lawrie

Go into Control Panel, Admin Tools, Computer Management, Disk Management and see if it listed there.