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ptstarling

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i just got a 18.4 gig 15k rpm fujitsu and lsi adapter and had some questions for those that know. i installed the drive and adapter and windows recognized both in the device manager, but i cant see the drive in My Computer to move any files. do i need to format the drive, if so how do i?

second question, i'd like to move windows (xp pro) to that drive but i hate having to reintstall can i do it without having to reinstall and just removing it from the system? any help is apprecicated. thanks
 
go to control panel, then performance and maintence, then admin tools, then click on computer managment, then click on disk mangement, and it should give you a pop up where it asks to format the new drive

For the second question, try using norton ghost or a similar app
 
HitmanZ said:
go to control panel, then performance and maintence, then admin tools, then click on computer managment, then click on disk mangement, and it should give you a pop up where it asks to format the new drive

For the second question, try using norton ghost or a similar app
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Correct on both counts. In fact, if you are going to use something like Ghost then don't even bother formatting the drive, it will take care of that for you during the imaging process.
 
Hmm, question related to this. I do have my other hard drive slaved. The bootable is on master. But I can't get it to even show up in the drive management for some reason. It did say "new drive found" when I booted it up to Windows but I still can't find the drive to format (and guess what, I even formatted it too *I think*). <-- Someone told me to do that in order to make it appear on disk management.

-J.
 
GeForceX said:
Hmm, question related to this. I do have my other hard drive slaved. The bootable is on master. But I can't get it to even show up in the drive management for some reason. It did say "new drive found" when I booted it up to Windows but I still can't find the drive to format (and guess what, I even formatted it too *I think*). <-- Someone told me to do that in order to make it appear on disk management.

-J.
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Well, you don't have to format it to make it show on on drive management, it will show whether or not it is formatted. Also, try using partition magic if some how (i don't know why) it doesn't show up on drive management. Recheck the settings, also, does dos even show up your drive (what about fdisk?)
 
To make the drive show up in Windows, it has to be partitioned so that the drive has a letter assigned to it. After that it needs to be formatted before you can do anything with it. Use fdisk or a Windows setup disk to partition, then format it or use Ghost to clone your old drive to it.
 
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