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2nd Hard Drive
I've recently got a second hard drive for my desktop and
am running windows millenium edition. Like a previous poster it is showing in my bios but not when I start windows up. The advice given was that I had to format and partition the hard drive and to refer to myintructions with the hard drive. I do not have the instructions however so is there any other source I can get the information from to perform this task? Cheers Andrew |
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2nd Hard Drive
The harddrive manufacturer will have a utility at there web site which will
do it for you. That is the easiest way. If Western Digital try Data Life Guard http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp#dlgtools If Maxtor try Maxblast http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Ma...&downloadID=57 If Seagate try diskwizard http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/...s/discwiz.html -- Jon Hildrum DTS MVP www.hildrum.com "Andrew" wrote in message ... I've recently got a second hard drive for my desktop and am running windows millenium edition. Like a previous poster it is showing in my bios but not when I start windows up. The advice given was that I had to format and partition the hard drive and to refer to myintructions with the hard drive. I do not have the instructions however so is there any other source I can get the information from to perform this task? Cheers Andrew |
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2nd Hard Drive
-----Original Message----- I've recently got a second hard drive for my desktop and am running windows millenium edition. Like a previous poster it is showing in my bios but not when I start windows up. The advice given was that I had to format and partition the hard drive and to refer to myintructions with the hard drive. I do not have the instructions however so is there any other source I can get the information from to perform this task? Cheers Andrew . You can partition the hard drive with fdisk which is in the windows folder. You have to use the msdos window and type in fdisk while in the windows directory. Be careful not to partition the wrong disk or you will loose all the data on it. When you have created a secondary dos partition you can format it with windows explorer. Jim |
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