New HD in XP not seen

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Bob Hughes

I just installed a 500GB sata Hard drive on my XP machine. The bios
recognizes it. The device manager shows 2 HD
1. WDC WD2500JS-60NCB1,
2. WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0
The Device manager shows both are working properly. #1 device usage as
blank, #2 shows Device usage "Use this device (enabled)

It is HD 2 that I cannot see. In the old days I would have had to fdisk it
first. Is this still true? Or is there something else I must do?

Bob
 
"Bob Hughes" <bob@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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> I just installed a 500GB sata Hard drive on my XP machine. The bios
> recognizes it. The device manager shows 2 HD
> 1. WDC WD2500JS-60NCB1,
> 2. WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0
> The Device manager shows both are working properly. #1 device usage as
> blank, #2 shows Device usage "Use this device (enabled)
>
> It is HD 2 that I cannot see. In the old days I would have had to fdisk it
> first. Is this still true? Or is there something else I must do?
>
> Bob


you need to use disk management to partition and format the drive
 
Bob Hughes wrote:
> I just installed a 500GB sata Hard drive on my XP machine. The bios
> recognizes it. The device manager shows 2 HD
> 1. WDC WD2500JS-60NCB1,
> 2. WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0
> The Device manager shows both are working properly. #1 device usage as
> blank, #2 shows Device usage "Use this device (enabled)
>
> It is HD 2 that I cannot see. In the old days I would have had to fdisk it
> first. Is this still true? Or is there something else I must do?
>
> Bob

Disk Management would be a good place to look for a new drive.
Sample picture here.

http://www.pcbuyerbeware.co.uk/Disk_Management_XP.gif

Paul
 
"philo" <philo@privacy.net> wrote in
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>
> "Bob Hughes" <bob@somewhere.com> wrote in message
> news:Xns99E3B6D85E85Bobsomewherecom@207.46.248.16...
>> I just installed a 500GB sata Hard drive on my XP machine. The bios
>> recognizes it. The device manager shows 2 HD
>> 1. WDC WD2500JS-60NCB1,
>> 2. WDC WD5000AAKS-00YGA0
>> The Device manager shows both are working properly. #1 device usage
>> as blank, #2 shows Device usage "Use this device (enabled)
>>
>> It is HD 2 that I cannot see. In the old days I would have had to
>> fdisk it first. Is this still true? Or is there something else I must
>> do?
>>
>> Bob
>
>
> you need to use disk management to partition and format the drive
>
Thanks philo & Paul. It took quit a while but system now recognizes new
disk.


Bob
 
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