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ghost harddrive

by dandl Nov 28, 2004 2:15AM PST

i have just recently bought and installed a new hrddrive for my computer , when booting up my computer can see the hard drive but once i get in to win xp i cant see my harddrive does anyone know whats wrong

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Re: ghost harddrive

by r. proffitt Former Forum moderator Nov 28, 2004 2:18AM PST

Do you have more than one hard disk? You didn't tell.

Bob

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Re: ghost harddrive

by swisse Nov 28, 2004 2:29AM PST

Make a partition in your second harddisk first, then format it to be recognized by XP.

Swisse

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Re: ghost harddrive

by dandl Nov 30, 2004 3:30AM PST

so how do i do that ???

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Re: ghost harddrive

by Edward ODaniel Nov 30, 2004 8:28AM PST

Start, right-click My Computer, and then click Manage, which will open the Computer Management MMC. Under the Storage icon, click Disk Management to open the Disk Management MMC. (If you want to directly open the Disk Management MMC you can type diskmgmt.msc from the RUN box or from a command line.)

If you are unfamiliar with partitioning and formatting hard drives this might be of some help:
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/proddocs/en-us/sag_diskconcepts_02a.mspx

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Re: ghost harddrive

by dandl Dec 1, 2004 6:43AM PST

thanks the problem is solved thaks alot

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