Silly Question (Adding A Hard Drive)

[ShotgunSteven]

I have two HDs in my machine, but only the main one is currently formatted and assigned a letter. When I go to Start>Control Panel>Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Storage>Disk Management(Local), the only option that appears to be what I need to format and set it up is the New Partition option. Is that what I use? I don't want to partition it, just want to set it up as a secondary drive to dump data too.

I'm not sure if the New Partition option is the one I want, as I've never had more than one HD in a comp before. 😱

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

If it's a brand new drive, you still need to partition it. You can make this partition the full capacity of the drive. You can then format it.

I haven't done this in a while, but I'm pretty sure that's how it goes.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Thanks. I thought that might be it, but I wanted confirmation after the fiasco that happened with the initial Windows install. Going to dump data to the new drive, then format and re-install Windows on the primary. 🙂

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Sounds like a plan 🙂

I'd do a slow format of it to check the drive for errors before you put any data on it that you're trying to keep safe.

 

[thunderroller]

well you will need to mak partition and then format of there may be problem in disk so it wont detect and partition

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello
Sounds like a plan 🙂

I'd do a slow format of it to check the drive for errors before you put any data on it that you're trying to keep safe.

Did that, came up fine. 🙂 Thanks for the assist. 🙂