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hardd rive not being detected

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psychofurryewok

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Weirdest thing, in Windows (done this in both 2k and 98SE so far), this hard drive brand new, out of the box, nothing done to it but plugged in, shows up under Device Manager but not under My Computer. it's not getting assigned a letter or anything and thus I can't copy files or anything over to it. Anyone know whats wrong? It's a Maxtor and the MaxBlast 3 utility doesn't detect it at all even though Device Manager says its there. Anyone?
 
format it

Start > Run > (type) Diskmgmt.msc > Rclick the unallocated space > Partition and Format (XP)
if its not displayed Action Button > Rescan Disks
 
W2K same thing
for W98 use Fdisk

FDisk Guide

NT\W2K\XP are basically the same thing, with more in common than different, W2K and XP being even closer to each other
 
Alright, got it all working. Thank you.

Oh and one more question. Every other drive I've ever installed has autodetected and done the whole thing itself, how come this one is being all bugger like this?
 
Because brand-new drives generally come unpartitioned and formated.
 
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