Hard disk help

[MrChuckles]

Righty ho,

just installed a 1gb of ram and a 200gb hard disk on my PC, and the new hard disk isn't showing up as a usable drive.

I seem to remember something about having to format it and partition it, but could someone provide a link to how to do it. I quite like the idea of partitioning it into a couple of different sections, again, any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers,

Jim

[silverx2]

if your running windows xp, simply rightclick my computer, goto manage, and then from there click harddrives. right click the new one and format, partion it.

[hanratty21]

if your running windows xp, simply rightclick my computer...

Works most of the time, but not for certain brands. What brand is your HD? If Seagate, it should have come with a utility to run in order to make the drive "usable" by your OS.

Also, are you sure the jumpers are set correctly? (this should be in the drive documentation).

RH

[MrChuckles]

nope, running win 2k - sorry, should have specified.

The hdd is visible in device manager, but not as a usable drive.

[MrChuckles]

oh, its a western digital OEM drive

[silverx2]

you might have to partion it through dos, or get a second party partition software.

is it windows 2000 pro?

[MrChuckles]

yeah, 2k pro, and the jumpers are set correctly (to slave). the drive is showing as working properly, but I can't remember how to assign it a drive letter and be usable!

[silverx2]

if its w2k pro, you should still have a manage option if you right click my computer.

[hanratty21]

Did you check the WD site for tools they have to help install the drive?

RH

[MrChuckles]

sorted it! thanks to silver and hanratty for the advice. DVD-RW is now also installed. Hurray!