Installed new hard drive not found in vista

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Amy - 31 Jul 2007 00:08 GMT

I installed a new hard drive D in my laptop, the drive is found in device
manger but not anywhere else, in vista. I really could do with help, Amy

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peter - 31 Jul 2007 03:04 GMT

installed vista over xp,
your words.......you have installed Vista OVER XP............no more XP
...no dual boot ..just Vista.............nothing else..nada.
peter

>I installed a new hard drive D in my laptop, the drive is found in device
> manger but not anywhere else, in vista. I really could do with help, Amy

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peter - 31 Jul 2007 03:06 GMT

oooops.wrong post
ignore
sorry

> installed vista over xp,
> your words.......you have installed Vista OVER XP............no more XP
> ...no dual boot ..just Vista.............nothing else..nada.
> peter

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Paul Randall - 31 Jul 2007 04:14 GMT

New hard drives typically have zeros in every byte of every sector and is
not recognized by the operating system. Go into disk management and check
its status. You typically have to format it and maybe initialize it and
maybe make it active. Just formatting may initialize and make it active - I
haven't tried it on Vista yet.

-Paul Randall

>I installed a new hard drive D in my laptop, the drive is found in device
> manger but not anywhere else, in vista. I really could do with help, Amy

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Amy - 31 Jul 2007 06:16 GMT

Thankyou , that soved the problem, I thankyou very very much

> New hard drives typically have zeros in every byte of every sector and is
> not recognized by the operating system. Go into disk management and check
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> >I installed a new hard drive D in my laptop, the drive is found in device
> > manger but not anywhere else, in vista. I really could do with help, Amy

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