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Old October 11th 04, 06:43 PM
Lansbury
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Could do with a bit of help please as I am several thousand miles from home
and my books to tell me how to solve this problem are back there.

Trying to upgrade an old Dell Pentium 3 machine which has been given to my son
and daughter in law.

I want to put on an additional hard drive. Have done so and it is visible in
the BIOS and Windows Device Manager, but it will not show up in Windows My
Computer.

Have gone into the Control Panel to try and assign a drive letter but this is
grayed out. I am guessing Dell have set the maximum number of drives at 3,
which is has fitted. I recall it is possible to change this but cannot
remember how to do it.

Any pointers or help gratefully received.
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Old October 11th 04, 06:55 PM
Mike M
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Has the drive been partitioned and formatted? Until a drive is
partitioned it is not visible in Windows Explorer and then needs to be
formatted before it can be accessed. It is possible, but I feel unlikely,
that Dell have set LASTDRIVE=D or whatever as this is usually done using
config.sys which isn't processed in Win Me.

See MS KB255867 - "How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to
Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk"
(http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=255867).
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Lansbury wrote:

Could do with a bit of help please as I am several thousand miles
from home and my books to tell me how to solve this problem are back
there.

Trying to upgrade an old Dell Pentium 3 machine which has been given
to my son and daughter in law.

I want to put on an additional hard drive. Have done so and it is
visible in the BIOS and Windows Device Manager, but it will not show
up in Windows My Computer.

Have gone into the Control Panel to try and assign a drive letter but
this is grayed out. I am guessing Dell have set the maximum number of
drives at 3, which is has fitted. I recall it is possible to change
this but cannot remember how to do it.

Any pointers or help gratefully received.


 




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