[parmo]

Me again... finally instaled new hard drive but am getting similar problems as pandahead.
clicked on " my computer" no new hard drive can be seen. checked in bios the new one is there and the smaller one too,new one is in device manager also. now am stumped???

[Wolfeymole]

Hi Parmo

All new HDD's added to a pc need to be formatted.
Right click on the drive in Disk Management and format it.
The route is Start/ Control Panel/ Admin Tools/ Computer Management/ Disk Management.

[parmo]

thanks again,going to try that now ,your help is much appreciated...

[Wolfeymole]

Your welcome Parmo, get back should you encounter problems.

[parmo]

hi wolfeymole, am on there now but can only see the smaller hard drive.

[parmo]

instaled new hard drive250gb,after help from wolfey finally found the hard drive,then spent hours trying to format it.it stated in disk management the following:disk 0 basic 28.3gb thats my smaller hard drive, then disk F 128gb the new one,whats happened to the rest of the 250gb hard drive?any clue's/

[Wolfeymole]

You need to reformat that drive in NTFS Parmo.
It sounds like you have formatted using FAT32 which will only see a certain amount.

Read this also Parmo.

[parmo]

thanks yet again...

[parmo]

wolfey your correct again it is in NTFS how do i change it to FAT 32?

[Wolfeymole]

You can't Parmo
You can change FAT32 to NTFS but not vice versa.
Did you read my link regarding partitioning?

[parmo]

hi all,can anyone tell me if this pc is set up correctly? in the bios the following set up.
IDE- Primary Master = HL-DT-CD-RW
IDE-Primary Slave= Samsung-CD-ROM
IDE-Secondary Master Maxtor 30gb HDD
IDE-Secondary Slave Maxtor 250gb HDD
the 30gb hdd is formatted in NTFS and would like to format the 250gb +30gb into FAT 32
advice would be most welcome

[Wolfeymole]

I'd set the 30GB as Primary Master if it contains the OS

Set the CDRW as Primary Slave

Set the 250GB as Secondary Master formatted in NTFS

Set the CDROM as Secondary Slave

You can't go back to FAT32 once a drive has been formatted in NTFS unless you re-format it Parmo.



Notice:
Parmo can you please stick to this thread with regard to this issue rather than make a new post, thanks.