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HDD doesn't show in My Computer
Win 98 SE; IE 6
I added a second HDD to the system and whether I set it up as a primary slave or secondary master (yes it's jumpered right; AFAIK) it shows on one of the POST screens, it shows in Device Manager (working properly), but does not show in My Computer. Add New Hardware wizard doesn't detect anything new. Belarc and Everest both show it. It's a used Samsung. The only number on it is VG34323A; nothing on Samsungs site. Any ideas? Thanks |
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HDD doesn't show in My Computer
The first thing you have to do with a new HD is to partition it. You then
have to format the partitions. For the former, you usually use FDISK. Are you just going to use this disk for additional file storage? Or are you going to install another operating system? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Stan" wrote in message ... Win 98 SE; IE 6 I added a second HDD to the system and whether I set it up as a primary slave or secondary master (yes it's jumpered right; AFAIK) it shows on one of the POST screens, it shows in Device Manager (working properly), but does not show in My Computer. Add New Hardware wizard doesn't detect anything new. Belarc and Everest both show it. It's a used Samsung. The only number on it is VG34323A; nothing on Samsungs site. Any ideas? Thanks |
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Partition and format..... Oh crap! I knew that too, Gary. Forgive a senior
moment, please. All is OK with this HDD now. Thanks. It will be used for the page file, various temp folders, and backups. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The first thing you have to do with a new HD is to partition it. You then have to format the partitions. For the former, you usually use FDISK. Are you just going to use this disk for additional file storage? Or are you going to install another operating system? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Stan" wrote in message ... Win 98 SE; IE 6 I added a second HDD to the system and whether I set it up as a primary slave or secondary master (yes it's jumpered right; AFAIK) it shows on one of the POST screens, it shows in Device Manager (working properly), but does not show in My Computer. Add New Hardware wizard doesn't detect anything new. Belarc and Everest both show it. It's a used Samsung. The only number on it is VG34323A; nothing on Samsungs site. Any ideas? Thanks |
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HDD doesn't show in My Computer
Suggest you make the entire disk one big Extended Partition and then
sub-divide that into separate partitions for page, temp, backups and perhaps miscellaneous storage. Make the paging partition the first one, TEMP second. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Stan" wrote in message ... Partition and format..... Oh crap! I knew that too, Gary. Forgive a senior moment, please. All is OK with this HDD now. Thanks. It will be used for the page file, various temp folders, and backups. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The first thing you have to do with a new HD is to partition it. You then have to format the partitions. For the former, you usually use FDISK. Are you just going to use this disk for additional file storage? Or are you going to install another operating system? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Stan" wrote in message ... Win 98 SE; IE 6 I added a second HDD to the system and whether I set it up as a primary slave or secondary master (yes it's jumpered right; AFAIK) it shows on one of the POST screens, it shows in Device Manager (working properly), but does not show in My Computer. Add New Hardware wizard doesn't detect anything new. Belarc and Everest both show it. It's a used Samsung. The only number on it is VG34323A; nothing on Samsungs site. Any ideas? Thanks |
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Thanks for the suggestion. It works for me.
"Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... Suggest you make the entire disk one big Extended Partition and then sub-divide that into separate partitions for page, temp, backups and perhaps miscellaneous storage. Make the paging partition the first one, TEMP second. -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Stan" wrote in message ... Partition and format..... Oh crap! I knew that too, Gary. Forgive a senior moment, please. All is OK with this HDD now. Thanks. It will be used for the page file, various temp folders, and backups. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The first thing you have to do with a new HD is to partition it. You then have to format the partitions. For the former, you usually use FDISK. Are you just going to use this disk for additional file storage? Or are you going to install another operating system? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Stan" wrote in message ... Win 98 SE; IE 6 I added a second HDD to the system and whether I set it up as a primary slave or secondary master (yes it's jumpered right; AFAIK) it shows on one of the POST screens, it shows in Device Manager (working properly), but does not show in My Computer. Add New Hardware wizard doesn't detect anything new. Belarc and Everest both show it. It's a used Samsung. The only number on it is VG34323A; nothing on Samsungs site. Any ideas? Thanks |
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Instead of fooling with a partition for the swap file, why don't you
increase the amount of ram so that the swap file is not even used. That's how you speed up a PC's operation. Have you monitored the swap file usage on the PC? -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Stan" wrote in message ... Partition and format..... Oh crap! I knew that too, Gary. Forgive a senior moment, please. All is OK with this HDD now. Thanks. It will be used for the page file, various temp folders, and backups. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The first thing you have to do with a new HD is to partition it. You then have to format the partitions. For the former, you usually use FDISK. Are you just going to use this disk for additional file storage? Or are you going to install another operating system? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Stan" wrote in message ... Win 98 SE; IE 6 I added a second HDD to the system and whether I set it up as a primary slave or secondary master (yes it's jumpered right; AFAIK) it shows on one of the POST screens, it shows in Device Manager (working properly), but does not show in My Computer. Add New Hardware wizard doesn't detect anything new. Belarc and Everest both show it. It's a used Samsung. The only number on it is VG34323A; nothing on Samsungs site. Any ideas? Thanks |
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This is a 9 yr. old second PC that I use now for learning things, like
partitioning. I can and plan to add more RAM. I can add another 128 MB which will max the RAM at 384 MB. No, I've not actually monitored that swap file usage but I wanted to do this partitioning anyway. "Ron Badour" wrote in message ... Instead of fooling with a partition for the swap file, why don't you increase the amount of ram so that the swap file is not even used. That's how you speed up a PC's operation. Have you monitored the swap file usage on the PC? -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Stan" wrote in message ... Partition and format..... Oh crap! I knew that too, Gary. Forgive a senior moment, please. All is OK with this HDD now. Thanks. It will be used for the page file, various temp folders, and backups. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The first thing you have to do with a new HD is to partition it. You then have to format the partitions. For the former, you usually use FDISK. Are you just going to use this disk for additional file storage? Or are you going to install another operating system? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Stan" wrote in message ... Win 98 SE; IE 6 I added a second HDD to the system and whether I set it up as a primary slave or secondary master (yes it's jumpered right; AFAIK) it shows on one of the POST screens, it shows in Device Manager (working properly), but does not show in My Computer. Add New Hardware wizard doesn't detect anything new. Belarc and Everest both show it. It's a used Samsung. The only number on it is VG34323A; nothing on Samsungs site. Any ideas? Thanks |
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HDD doesn't show in My Computer
With 256 mb, you may well have enough ram already and adding more ram than
you use in a typical computer session will not accomplish anything. As long as you are experimenting with things, suggest you take a look at swap file usage using the system monitor (SYSMON.EXE). Also, fdisk is very limited in its ability to partition--it can only create and delete. If you like having partitions, you will find that your partition needs frequently change--maybe you want more or less partitions, you may need to adjust the sizes, etc. This is when you need a partitioning program such as: BootIt Next Generation is available from: http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/ and it does partitioning, makes a compressed image, does many other partitioning chores and is a boot manager. It is not quite as easy to use as Partition Magic but it is half the cost and has more features. Unlike the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a *full function* demo you can try for FREE for 30 days. The web site has a lot of support articles. -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Stan" wrote in message ... This is a 9 yr. old second PC that I use now for learning things, like partitioning. I can and plan to add more RAM. I can add another 128 MB which will max the RAM at 384 MB. No, I've not actually monitored that swap file usage but I wanted to do this partitioning anyway. "Ron Badour" wrote in message ... Instead of fooling with a partition for the swap file, why don't you increase the amount of ram so that the swap file is not even used. That's how you speed up a PC's operation. Have you monitored the swap file usage on the PC? -- Regards Ron Badour, MS MVP for W98 Tips: http://home.satx.rr.com/badour Knowledge Base Info: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?pr=kbinfo "Stan" wrote in message ... Partition and format..... Oh crap! I knew that too, Gary. Forgive a senior moment, please. All is OK with this HDD now. Thanks. It will be used for the page file, various temp folders, and backups. "Gary S. Terhune" wrote in message ... The first thing you have to do with a new HD is to partition it. You then have to format the partitions. For the former, you usually use FDISK. Are you just going to use this disk for additional file storage? Or are you going to install another operating system? -- Gary S. Terhune MS MVP Shell/User "Stan" wrote in message ... Win 98 SE; IE 6 I added a second HDD to the system and whether I set it up as a primary slave or secondary master (yes it's jumpered right; AFAIK) it shows on one of the POST screens, it shows in Device Manager (working properly), but does not show in My Computer. Add New Hardware wizard doesn't detect anything new. Belarc and Everest both show it. It's a used Samsung. The only number on it is VG34323A; nothing on Samsungs site. Any ideas? Thanks |
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