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    How do you get an unformatted new sata drive to be recognised by XP? Its coming up in disk drives in system properties, but not in MY Computer?

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    How to use Disk Management
    To start Disk Management: 1. Log on as administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
    2. Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK.
    3. In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window appears. Your disks and volumes appear in a graphical view and list view. To customize how you view your disks and volumes in the upper and lower panes of the window, point to Top or Bottom on the View menu, and then click the view that you want to use.

    To create a new partition or logical drive on a basic disk: 1. In the Disk Management window, complete one of the following procedures, and then continue to step 2:• To create a new partition, right-click unallocated space on the basic disk where you want to create the partition, and then click New Partition.
    • To create a new logical drive in an extended partition, right-click free space on an extended partition where you want to create the logical drive, and then click New Logical Drive.

    2. In the New Partition Wizard, click Next.
    3. Click the type of partition that you want to create (either Primary partition, Extended partition, or Logical drive), and then click Next.
    4. Specify the size of the partition in the Partition size in MB box, and then click Next.
    5. Decide whether to manually assign a drive letter, let the system automatically enumerate the drive, or do not assign a drive letter to the new partition or logical drive, and then click Next.
    6. Specify the formatting options you want to use by using one of the following procedures:• If you do not want to format the partition, click Do not format this partition, and then click Next.
    • If you want to format the partition, click Format this partition with the following settings, and then complete the following procedure in the Format dialog box:a. Type a name for the volume in the Volume label box. This is an optional step.
    b. Click the file system that you want to use in the File system box.

    You can change the disk allocation unit size, and then specify whether to perform a quick format, or enable file and folder compression on NTFS volumes.
    Click Next.


    7. Confirm that the options that selected are correct, and then click Finish.
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    easy get hirens boot cd

    start it

    select option 1 option 1 and format the thing and set it as primary and active

    takes all of 1 minute

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    Ok should of stated that it is a 2nd Drive, The PC has another SATA as Main Drive and is partioned in 2, so the new drive is just for extra space. Same procedure as above or not?

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    yep, check at sats/ COMPUTERS /SOFTWARE/hard disk recovery

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    if it shows in disk management, right click it, new partition, follow the wizard,choose quick format.
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    Thanks guys, Helps to set jumper correctly aswell, wasnt showing as both were set to master

    Thanks to all commenters for advice.

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    SATA drive has JUMPERS ?
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    Quote Originally Posted by streeter75 View Post
    Thanks guys, Helps to set jumper correctly aswell, wasnt showing as both were set to master

    Thanks to all commenters for advice.
    streeter
    thats not a jumper for master/slave mate
    its for speed 1.5/3.0

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    I thought it must of been jumper, All fixed now anyways

    Cheers to all

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