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h.freebury - 27 Mar 2004 14:48 GMT

I have installed a second hard drive . It is shown in the
bios data but windows is not detecting it . how do i get
it to work .

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Mike M - 27 Mar 2004 14:53 GMT

Can you see the drive in the Device Manger? If yes and the problem is that
you cannot see the drive in Windows Explorer the problem is likely to be due
to not having fdisked and partitioned the drive.

For details of how to fdisk and format see the Microsoft Knowledge Base
article 255867 - "How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition
or Repartition a Hard Disk" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=255867).
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Mike Maltby MS-MVP
mcmaltby@hotmail.com

> I have installed a second hard drive . It is shown in the
> bios data but windows is not detecting it . how do i get
> it to work .

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TSnor - 28 Mar 2004 17:15 GMT

FDISK

Create a partition

On older versions of windows get a new FDISK from
microsoft for large disks.

Sometimes the disk driver manufacturer has a tool that
does a better job (seagate does) like copying from the
old disk to the new including the OS.

>-----Original Message-----
>I have installed a second hard drive . It is shown in the
>bios data but windows is not detecting it . how do i get
>it to work .
>.

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