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I need major help with New HARD DRIVE! :--(

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DAM

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Well, I have a win2k machine, and I have a WD 20 gig hd in it, I just put in a brand new unformatted WD 20 gig hd in, it is detected in the BIOS, the hardware manager sees it, but yet, I can not see when I go to My Computer or in DOS. What do I do? I had never put in a new hd witout formatting it first and I thought I would try this just for kicks but I am lost :--(



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dam(thanksy)
 
awww crap, now i just noticed my CD rom is not reading, i just put in a new 250 Iomega Zip drive and I think that is messing up the CD ROM, damnit now i have two problems.





dam()
 
What Entity said. You can't see it because no partition exists to be seen. You need to use FDISK to create a partiton and format it, or do what Ent. said
 
^^ he is correct ^^

the Zip drive/cd rom drive thing is probably a problem with how you setup the master/slave.
 


<< Right Click on My Computer -> Manage -> Disk Management -> See the Disk, Partition and Format it.

Rob >>




Thanks for the help, however when I click on the disk, it doesnt give me the option about formattin or partitionning it, it is just greyed out when I right click on the drive.


As for the zip/cd i know i set the damn thing wrong :--(




dam(thanks for the help)
 
yeah, after you partition, you have to reboot. then you can format...

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if this was NOT an NT kernel, use fdisk to partition the new drive.
 
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