windows not recognizing new additional hard drive

Neat! - I'll make a note of that for future Mike. It's not very often that I
need to FDISK these days, particularly with just one disk present g but
its certainly a point worth being aware of, if just for these NG's.

Mart


"Mike M" wrote in message
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Let's hope so Mart. I wondered if you'd missed the reference to a Code 10
error.

I have learned something though from this thread which I hadn't realised
until I checked it out for myself and that is that FDISK option 5, to
change drive, is only present when the system sees more than one drive. I
tested it here on a Win Me VM which has just the one virtual drive as I've
always been used to seeing option 5 as my old celeron here that's running
Win Me has two drives. So if a user doesn't see option 5 in fdisk when
they've added a new drive then they've got a driver or connection problem
that needs to be dealt with.

Cheers,
--
Mike M


Mart wrote:

Thanks Mike - Got totally side tracked (AND completely missed the
Code 10 reference in the original post g). Let's hope Binky will be
able to resolve it now.

Mart wrote:

Neat! - I'll make a note of that for future Mike. It's not very often
that I need to FDISK these days, particularly with just one disk
present g but its certainly a point worth being aware of, if just
for these NG's.

Mart,

Agreed, and without Binky's comment about not seeing a fifth option (I'd
never previously though to even count the number of options) I don't think
I would have realised that the option to change drives when using fdisk
depended on whether there were two or more drives. As for when I last
used fdisk, well other than for checking it out for this and other
queries, I haven't a clue since any drive management I need to do nowadays
I do using BING (www.bootitng.com) or XP's Disk Management applet.
--
Mike Maltby MS-MVP