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Adding a second SATA hard drive (Not RAID)

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travlen

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I recently purchased a Dell with a 40GB SATA in it.
I just bought a 120GB Samsung SATA drive and hooked it up.
The hard drive is recognized and the drivers are correctly installed.
the drive does not show up in windows explorer.
Do I need to format the drive or something?
Thanks in advance for any help.

-Travis
 
It's not formatted

Start->Run->compmgmt.msc

Storage->Disk Management
Right click on it, Format
max size NTFS


Enjoy.
 
I appreciate the reply.

I went to that location and it says the space is "Unallocated"
Do I need to create a partition?

The primary HD says "Disk 0 : Basic : 37.24GB : Online"
The new HD says "Disk 1 : Unknown : 111.81GB : Not Initialized"

FYI: OS is WinXP Home.

Thanks again.

-Travis
 
Wow I must be a serious newb.

How do you create a partition?

I right click on the unallocated section and the "New Partition..." option is grayed out.

Any ideas anyone?
 
Up near the top of the computer management you have open is a four letter word. The word "help" means just that, here is where you click for 'help'
Then click the "+" in front of the "disk management" option, and there are all the steps to add a new hard drive, under the novel heading of "Checklist: Adding a New Disk"


So what did you buy the SC420?
 
Originally posted by: ribbon13
It's not formatted

Start->Run->compmgmt.msc

Storage->Disk Management
Right click on it, Format
max size NTFS


Enjoy.
Click to expand...

be no mislead for ribbon is the man, no doubt about it.
 
Originally posted by: ribbon13
Is format greyed out?
Click to expand...

When I select my primary disk 0, "Format..." is grayed out.

When I select my HD I added, it doesn't show "Format..." I am assuming because you must partition before you can format. What is shows is "New Partition..." but it is grayed out.

I am starting to think maybe the user settings are not allowing me access to add a disk...
Strange though, because I am logged in as the administrator and the only other user is guest.
 
Originally posted by: WiseOldDude
Up near the top of the computer management you have open is a four letter word. The word "help" means just that, here is where you click for 'help'
Then click the "+" in front of the "disk management" option, and there are all the steps to add a new hard drive, under the novel heading of "Checklist: Adding a New Disk"


So what did you buy the SC420?
Click to expand...

Thanks WiseOldDude. Looks like I am making some progress with the command line procedures.

FYI: It's a Dell 4700
 
Ok, if nothing else... you could boot with the windows setup disk, and use that to partition and format that drive.
 
Ok, the drive is partitioned and NTFS formatted.

There are 3 types of partition: primary, extended, and logical.

Any ideas of which to do?

I tried the primary and now it looks like I need to assign a drive letter.
 
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