Guest Dale Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 I have two hard drives. My BIOS picks them both up. Shows the correct size, manfactur and such. Windows XP does no show the second hard drive. What procedure do I have to do in order that XP picks up the second hard drive. Tks
Guest Plato Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: second hard drive =?Utf-8?B?RGFsZQ==?= wrote: > > I have two hard drives. My BIOS picks them both up. Shows the correct size, > manfactur and such. Windows XP does no show the second hard drive. > > What procedure do I have to do in order that XP picks up the second hard > drive. Is the second hard drive partitioned? -- http://www.bootdisk.com/
Guest Uncle Grumpy Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: second hard drive Dale <Dale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >I have two hard drives. My BIOS picks them both up. Shows the correct size, >manfactur and such. Windows XP does no show the second hard drive. Has the drive been 1) partitioned, and 2) formatted?
Guest Dale Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: second hard drive your talking about the second i am sure, and no to both. Can't get to it to format it. How would or could that be done now ????? "Uncle Grumpy" wrote: > Dale <Dale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > > >I have two hard drives. My BIOS picks them both up. Shows the correct size, > >manfactur and such. Windows XP does no show the second hard drive. > > Has the drive been 1) partitioned, and 2) formatted? >
Guest M.I.5¾ Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: second hard drive "Dale" <Dale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A33870E5-13AA-4DFF-B63A-8387FFEFB4D4@microsoft.com... > your talking about the second i am sure, and no to both. Can't get to it > to > format it. How would or could that be done now ????? > Right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Manage'. Select the 'Disk Management' from the menu that appears. A box shold open showing all your disk drives and partitions. Right click in the grey box at the left hand side representing your disk drive and select 'Initialise' from the menu. Now you can right click in the space to the right and select 'Create Partition'. A box will open giving you choices as to size, type etc. > "Uncle Grumpy" wrote: > >> Dale <Dale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >> >> >I have two hard drives. My BIOS picks them both up. Shows the correct >> >size, >> >manfactur and such. Windows XP does no show the second hard drive. >> >> Has the drive been 1) partitioned, and 2) formatted? >>
Guest Detlev Dreyer Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: second hard drive "Dale" <Dale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > your talking about the second i am sure, and no to both. Can't get to > it to format it. How would or could that be done now ? "How to partition and format a hard disk in Windows XP" http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348/en-us -- d-d
Guest Lil' Dave Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: second hard drive If visible in disk management, XP has "picked up" the second hard drive. To be visible in windows explorer, the hard drive has to be partitioned and formatted. The process of partitioning also formats the partition in disk management of XP. Be aware that: FAT32 partitions are limited to 32GB in size in XP disk management partition creation. NTFS partitions use file security. May not be accessible to other users, OR, if the hard drive is moved, to any other user on another PC. FAT32 has no file security aspect. Dave "Dale" <Dale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:A33870E5-13AA-4DFF-B63A-8387FFEFB4D4@microsoft.com... > your talking about the second i am sure, and no to both. Can't get to it > to > format it. How would or could that be done now ????? > > "Uncle Grumpy" wrote: > >> Dale <Dale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >> >> >I have two hard drives. My BIOS picks them both up. Shows the correct >> >size, >> >manfactur and such. Windows XP does no show the second hard drive. >> >> Has the drive been 1) partitioned, and 2) formatted? >>
Guest Dale Posted July 19, 2007 Posted July 19, 2007 Re: second hard drive Lil'l Dave, You hit it right on the mark. Thanks so much. I now have access to my second hard drive. Never too old to learn huh. Do you know anything about why I can not play vidios, shot clips like on Weather.Com? I have the latest real player and media player, but when I click on the video, it goes to the first page and then hangs up. An suggestions. Thanks Again Dale "Lil' Dave" wrote: > If visible in disk management, XP has "picked up" the second hard drive. To > be visible in windows explorer, the hard drive has to be partitioned and > formatted. The process of partitioning also formats the partition in disk > management of XP. > > Be aware that: > FAT32 partitions are limited to 32GB in size in XP disk management partition > creation. > NTFS partitions use file security. May not be accessible to other users, > OR, if the hard drive is moved, to any other user on another PC. FAT32 has > no file security aspect. > Dave > "Dale" <Dale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:A33870E5-13AA-4DFF-B63A-8387FFEFB4D4@microsoft.com... > > your talking about the second i am sure, and no to both. Can't get to it > > to > > format it. How would or could that be done now ????? > > > > "Uncle Grumpy" wrote: > > > >> Dale <Dale@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: > >> > >> >I have two hard drives. My BIOS picks them both up. Shows the correct > >> >size, > >> >manfactur and such. Windows XP does no show the second hard drive. > >> > >> Has the drive been 1) partitioned, and 2) formatted? > >> > > >
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