Need some help on the new SATA Hard Drives

Magical · 07-09-2006, 04:13 AM

hey guys i installed xp pro on my system and everything is running just one problem i have two hard drives .... and it only sees one of them in xp so it looks like this i have one that has been formated blah blah

so i have 137 gb C drive and 20gb d drive but my other hard drive that i have in my computer says its there on my motherboard says its working properly just dont know how to get it to show up so i can use it to tell you how i have it all set up i have one in sata 1 and one in sata 2 but number 2 hard drive wont show? so im kinda sad because im missing a whole hard drive can someone help me out.

**linderman** · 07-09-2006, 07:32 AM

Magical:

it sounds to me as if you will need to partition and format the drive. You need to partition the drive even if you want that drive just one big chunk, thats still considered a partition.

here is how to get there:

right click on my computer and select "manage" from teh upper part of the drop down list

then in the left pane choose "disk management"

then in the right pane (upper half of right pane) you should see your drive thats is "hiding" from you>>> right click on the hiding drive and select format from the drop down list >>> then select NTFS file system >>>> dont format partitions larger than 32gig as FAT-32 with windows disk managment >>>> always use NTFS !

Magical · 07-11-2006, 03:03 AM

Thanks i found my missing drive haha go figure i would have to format that one too lmao wow duh right funny funny thanks Linder.

07-09-2006, 07:32 AM	#2 (permalink)
linderman Moderator, Hardware Team Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 20,437 OS: win 2000 pro / Win XP pro My System	Magical: it sounds to me as if you will need to partition and format the drive. You need to partition the drive even if you want that drive just one big chunk, thats still considered a partition. here is how to get there: right click on my computer and select "manage" from teh upper part of the drop down list then in the left pane choose "disk management" then in the right pane (upper half of right pane) you should see your drive thats is "hiding" from you>>> right click on the hiding drive and select format from the drop down list >>> then select NTFS file system >>>> dont format partitions larger than 32gig as FAT-32 with windows disk managment >>>> always use NTFS ! __________________ I still know nothing and I respect that fact, striving to improve and, along the way, help anyone that comes from the place that I used to be! Power Supply Selection LEARN TO BACK-UP YOUR DATA FREE & EASY YouTube - Runtime Software DriveImage XML tutorial