windows doesnt pick up 2nd HDD

[Corporate Thug]

i have a 100 GB WD SE set as master on IDE channel 1
i added a 120 gb maxtor as the slave on IDE 1

Bios picks up the drive, disk management in the admin tools picks up the drive, but it doesnt show up in my computer.

how can i format this sucker?

 

[nboy22]

Do you have a winxp disc? if so, boot up in your bios to your cdrom, have the winxp disc in your cdrom of course, then once you get into the blue screens which ask you to install.. so on and so forth, look for the Repair Console which is usually entered by pressing R, after you get into the repair console, try and see if your drive is D: or E: I'm thinking it would be any of those two, it might go further down the line, and if you see one that's completely empty, use format D: where D is the drive letter

 

[MichaelD]

Windows Explorer won't see the drive until you create and format a partition on it.

Right click My Computer, Manage, Disk Management. Right click on teh drive, create partion, format.

Enjoy. 🙂

 

[Corporate Thug]

guys, whats the difference between dynamic and basic?

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: shady06
guys, whats the difference between dynamic and basic?

Here.

I used to convert all my disks to Dynamic, but then when I had to restore a backup, I couldn't do it...something about Dynamic being icompatible or somethign liek that. I had a few guys tell me not to bother...I haven't since.

*shrug* Hopefully someone else (Insane3D, you out there?) can chime in?

 

[Corporate Thug]

ok so i formatted and windows recognizes now, but how can i change it from dynamic to basic?

 

[MichaelD]

Disk Management, right click on the disk...on the left-hand "title block" part.

 

[Corporate Thug]

that option is greyed out for some reason...

 

[VirtualLarry]

Originally posted by: shady06
ok so i formatted and windows recognizes now, but how can i change it from dynamic to basic?

You can't. Have to re-partition and re-format.

Unless you are doing software RAID, I strongly suggest to keep to "basic" partitions, to remain compatible with other OSes and disk utilities. "dynamic" is a new MS-proprietary disk-partitioning scheme, generally not very compatible with anything else.