hard drive

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Subject: Hard drive
From: "Zagan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
Sent: 8/18/2004 6:54:30 AM




What does disk Management report as the status of your
D:\ drive? is is RAW? FAT? FAT32? NTFS? UNPARTITIONED?

If so post back and we take next step.

it is unpartitioned and it had FAT 32 on it.









>-----Original Message-----
>My computer had two hard drives listed C: & D: with
>Windows ME as the OS. I installed Windows XP on drive C:
>but, drive D: never was assigned a drive letter.My
>Computer list one hard drive but, Device Manager lists
>both drives. I have tried using Disk Management to
assign
>a letter and can't. Is there a way I can assign the
other
>drive a letter or get my information off the drive
without
>losing any info?
>
>.
>
..

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Your hard drive posting is unclear, however if you see it in Device Manager
and NOT in My Computer, and also want to be able to use it for storage, then
it should be partitioned [if require] as a first step and then formatted, one
partition at a time.

Remebr in Device Manager that it can only be partitioned if it is a raw
[never used before in any computer] drive. Should you want to partition a
drive that has previously been used in any PC then you need to buy Partition
Magic or other Disk Management programme if you didn't get it with the drive.

"James H" wrote:

> Subject: Hard drive
> From: "Zagan" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com>
> Sent: 8/18/2004 6:54:30 AM
>
>
>
>
> What does disk Management report as the status of your
> D:\ drive? is is RAW? FAT? FAT32? NTFS? UNPARTITIONED?
>
> If so post back and we take next step.
>
> it is unpartitioned and it had FAT 32 on it.
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >My computer had two hard drives listed C: & D: with
> >Windows ME as the OS. I installed Windows XP on drive C:
> >but, drive D: never was assigned a drive letter.My
> >Computer list one hard drive but, Device Manager lists
> >both drives. I have tried using Disk Management to
> assign
> >a letter and can't. Is there a way I can assign the
> other
> >drive a letter or get my information off the drive
> without
> >losing any info?
> >
> >.
> >
> ..
>
>
>