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Installing 160GB HD in XP....

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LIVAN

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Just having some trouble here. I am installing a 160gb to replace one of my old 20 gb drives. Now I set everything exactly the same as teh 20gb. And Bios detects teh drive. However, once it boots into XP, there is no drive letter for me to access the nex 160gb therefore, I cannot format etc. Help please..

Is it something simple I am not doing?
 
If it's showing up in disk management you'll just need to create some partitions on it, with Windows you're required for have atleast one. If you really plan on replacing the 20G drive you should look into just ghosting it to the new drive, that'll take care of all the partitioning for you.

If it's not there you probably need to install drivers for whatever controller the drive is attached to. You'll also need a controller capable of 48-bin LBA to get access to all of the drive, all ATA-133 controllers support 48-bit LBA, if you don't have one you'll need to come to terms with losing ~23G, get an ATA-133 controller or see if you can finangle a way to get it to work with your current controller.
 
Thanks for the heads up. I knew it was just something simple. Forgot about Drive management. Too many years using dos and Win 2k.

Question, what is difference between Dynamic and Basic drive?

I have a Fat32 partition, with data, anyway to convert that to NTFS?
 
Win2K is the same as XP in respect to partitioning drives.

Don't use Dynamic disks unless you really know you'll need one, it'll only create problems.

type 'convert /?'
 
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