When adding a new hard drive to an operating system such as Win Me it is
necessary to both partition and format the drive before it can be accessed
from the GUI and assigned a drive letter. To do this requires the use of
FDISK and FORMAT both of which programs need to be run from a command
prompt (DOS window).

For details of how to fdisk and format see the Microsoft Knowledge Base
article 255867 - "How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to
Partition
or Repartition a Hard Disk" (http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=255867).
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP



coop wrote:

i have an older computer that is running windows me. i have two main
problems and i am serious need of some help. i have tried to hook a
60gb hard drive to my exsiting 12gb hard drive. when i go to add new
hardware my computer will recognize the device but as soon as it has
been recogized that all i can get to happen. does anybody know how i
can fix this problem ?