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OEM Harddrive help

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littlebitstrouds

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I'm upgrading a friend's Dell with an additional wd 40gb harddrive. Bought it off of Newegg but bought an OEM drive. I hooked it up and it recognizes it in the hardware manager and in the bios but I can't get it to pop up in My Computer... Do I need to format the drive (probably) but where should I do that or with what program?
 
You need to partition the drive first and then format it. You can just do it with the XP (I'm assuming you are using Win XP) cd. Boot off with the XP cd and then when presented with the list of hdd, select the hdd you want to partition and format. After the format exit the installation. DO NOT INSTALL WIN XP! Make sure you are partitioning or formatting the correct hdd otherwise you will lose all the programs on the primary hdd. To ensure you do not mess up, you can temporarily disconnect the primary hdd and connect the new hdd are master and then do the partition and format. And then reconnect and reconfigure the hdd's.
 
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