New WD 500Gb drive not showing in WIndows
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Posted by geronimo on July 16, 2007, 11:49 am
Please log in for more thread options 1 Tb? When the PC boots up BIOS sees the new drive and identifies it, shows it connected as a slave drive on primary channel UDMA 133. But when XP boots up, it does not see the drive on the system. However I do have a drive listed in device mgr. "st3500630a" ---I think that is it. But it doesn't make sense for it to be shown in device mgr, but not shown in explorer. I was going to format it for NTFS, as my other drives are. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by meerkat on July 16, 2007, 12:04 pm
Please log in for more thread options If it shows there, assign it a drive letter, then partition/format it. | |||||||||||||
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Posted by John McGaw on July 16, 2007, 12:05 pm
Please log in for more thread options geronimo wrote:
> Its WIn XP SP2. I thought WIn XP could work with drives greater that
> 1 Tb? When the PC boots up BIOS sees the new drive and identifies it, > shows it connected as a slave drive on primary channel UDMA 133. But > when XP boots up, it does not see the drive on the system. However I > do have a drive listed in device mgr. "st3500630a" ---I think that is > it. But it doesn't make sense for it to be shown in device mgr, but > not shown in explorer. I was going to format it for NTFS, as my other > drives are. OK. I'll try to avoid going into the whole "Read The Fine Manual" thing and just say that you always need to go into disk management and partition/format a new drive. Try searching in the Help and Support Center for disk management and then choose Disk Management: how to... and then Initialize new disks. -- John McGaw [Knoxville, TN, USA] http://johnmcgaw.com | |||||||||||||
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Posted by geronimo on July 16, 2007, 12:24 pm
Please log in for more thread options Disk management is now formatting the new drive, no problemo....its
easy if you just know where to look in XP! Thanks for the help!!! wrote: >geronimo wrote:
>> Its WIn XP SP2. I thought WIn XP could work with drives greater that
>> 1 Tb? When the PC boots up BIOS sees the new drive and identifies it, >> shows it connected as a slave drive on primary channel UDMA 133. But >> when XP boots up, it does not see the drive on the system. However I >> do have a drive listed in device mgr. "st3500630a" ---I think that is >> it. But it doesn't make sense for it to be shown in device mgr, but >> not shown in explorer. I was going to format it for NTFS, as my other >> drives are. >
>OK. I'll try to avoid going into the whole "Read The Fine Manual" thing >and just say that you always need to go into disk management and >partition/format a new drive. Try searching in the Help and Support >Center for disk management and then choose Disk Management: how to... >and then Initialize new disks. | |||||||||||||
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> 1 Tb? When the PC boots up BIOS sees the new drive and identifies it,
> shows it connected as a slave drive on primary channel UDMA 133. But
> when XP boots up, it does not see the drive on the system. However I
> do have a drive listed in device mgr. "st3500630a" ---I think that is
> it. But it doesn't make sense for it to be shown in device mgr, but
> not shown in explorer. I was going to format it for NTFS, as my other
> drives are.
>