Help: Xp Home And Adding A New Hd

Mr_Headcrab

<div class="IPBDescription">Anyone?</div> Alright, after a week of downtime (my power supply died), im finally back, but i need some help. I just bought a new hard drive (W.D. 60 gig) but, XP home refuses to let me format, the drive does not show up in My computer, but it shows up in device manager, "fdisk" has been removed form XP and replaced with a program in Admin. tools in control panel, that does not work. Anyone know the command to format/ setup a HD in XP?

Thanks

xioutlawix

Hey there,
I don't have my own xp computer in front of me (at school), but I've had to do the same thing.
What you do is right click on the "my computer" icon on your desktop, then click on manage.
Torwards the bottom of the list on your left hand side should be a thing for manging disk drives, or something or another, use your intuition to find it. Once you click on that, on the right hand side, upper half, will be a list of all the drives on your comp, including but not limited to hard drives and cd roms, burners, etc. Out of that list, find the unformatted hard drive by name, right click it, and click format. Might not be under format, you might have to specify some things first, wish I could help a bit more, but this should generally be a big push in the right direction. If you still can't figure out what to do from here, take it to best buy, you nubz0r <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

(j/k)

Zel

although xioutlawix's post looks correct, heres what i would do; unplug your working harddrive, put in yout XP cd, and reboot, it will be forced to boot from the CD (if not, that is a bios setting from CMOS, which is probably way too technical for you...) so the XP installation thing comes up thinking youre on a whole new PC. let it format the drive for you to FAT32 or NTFS, then when it says "oaky im going to start installing windows on this drive now," cut the power! plug in your regular harddrive and take out the xp cd. now youll boot from the good HDD, and it will see a formatted unused drive and automatically add it to your "my computer" screen as a blank.

Mr_Headcrab

ah, thanks both of you

oh, and for future refrence, im getting my A+ cert soon, so i know quite a bit, but im still learning. Thanks again <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

Error404

If you have Partition Magic, you can format it using that.

xioutlawix

Jesus zel, take it easy on the guy <grin>

Ahnteis

Create a partition in drive manager, then format it.

Mr_Headcrab

LMAO


Sorry, but after trying everything suggested up to the hard drive yank (i dont think it would have worked, i got a strange "Update only" version of XP) I looked through my program files and discovered i had PartitionMagic 8.0, I feel like a hugh idiot (but 60 gigs of HD space is mindblowing)


Everyone, shoot the idiot crab

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