New Hard Drive

[nick1985]

i installed an old HD into our dell upstairs. it is recognized in the bios and in hardware devices, yet it doesnt show up under my computer so i cannot install anything onto it. how do i make it show up there?

 

[ElPresidente408]

Don't you have to format it if your moving it from an AMD to an Intel system?

 

[dartworth]

Originally posted by: ElPresidente408
Don't you have to format it if your moving it from an AMD to an Intel system?

Oh boy...

 

[Chaotic42]

Well, first off, it doesn't matter what system a hard drive comes from or goes into. You can move a drive from an AMD system to an Intel system to an Alpha system. That doesn't matter.

What does matter is what type it is, being IDE or SCSI. Since you can plug it in, you don't need to worry about that. You can't plug a SCSI drive into an IDE controller and vice versa.

It could be that the drive is not formatted, or it's corrupted. It could also have a file system that your new PC doesn't understand. What OS are you using now, and what OS was on the old computer?

 

[nick1985]

i put the drive in my computer as a slave. i could see the files on it and everything. i put in my win XP disc, restarted my comp, then formatted the drive. i then moved the drive into the dell upstairs that my family uses and it is detected in the bios and everything, its just not showing up under "my computer" along with the C drive(which does show up 😉)

 

[Lonyo]

Originally posted by: nick1985
i put the drive in my computer as a slave. i could see the files on it and everything. i put in my win XP disc, restarted my comp, then formatted the drive. i then moved the drive into the dell upstairs that my family uses and it is detected in the bios and everything, its just not showing up under "my computer" along with the C drive(which does show up 😉)

What OS does the Dell use? If it's not Win NT/2K/XP and you formatted the drive as NTFS, the OS won't be able to see it (Win 98/95/Me can't see NTFS), so you might need to reformat again as FAT32.

If you do use Win 2k/XP on the Dell, it should be able to see the drive in My Computer whether its NTFS or FAT32, so I'm hoping you have Win 98/95/Me.

 

[nick1985]

win XP on both

 

[oog]

Does it show up under the disk management? Right click on My Computers and choose Manage. I would think that it should just show up under My Computer, but since it doesn't, let's see if it shows up as unpartitioned space.

 

[nick1985]

it says this

 

[tenoc]

What oog said.

Right click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: tenoc
What oog said.

Right click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management.

check out the above link...

 

[TheBDB]

Have you tried formatting it from the Dell? Looks like the Dell thinks it is a CD or something.

 

[nick1985]

ill go try that

 

[tenoc]

From there, click on the Disk 1 > Action > All Tasks.

Do whatever it is you want to do. Format?

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: nick1985
it says this

It's not formatted for either FAT or NTFS. Go format it in your other rig.

- M4H

 

[wetcat007]

Originally posted by: ElPresidente408
Don't you have to format it if your moving it from an AMD to an Intel system?

Sigh, and you even know how to overclock ur system... I believe it's apple to windows that needs a format not amd to intel lol.

 

[CatintheHeat]

It appears to me that the second drive needs to be an extended partition of your primary drive.

 

[nick1985]

Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire

Originally posted by: nick1985
it says this

It's not formatted for either FAT or NTFS. Go format it in your other rig.

- M4H

thanks. it worked