Re: Hard disk

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From: Tom (noway_at_nothere.com)
Date: 06/15/04 

Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:55:04 -0400

"Steve Hall" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1c9f401c4530f$b4e8ff80$a301280a@phx.gbl...
> From a stumbling XP user
>
> I have just fitted an 80Gb hard disk to my pentium III
> computer.
> The BIOS seems to recognise it and the device manager
> seems to recognise it however it is not formatted and
> therefore no drive letter has been assigned and I cannot
> therefore access it. How do you format a hard drive
> using XP as the only other time I tried (windows 95 and
> 98) I used FDisk.

Click start/run and type

diskmgmt.msc

And then right click on the Drive in question, choose format (make it NTFS,
not FAT32), then let it rip. if you want to do this fast, check the "Quick
Format" box. Then give it a drive letter. If you don't want it to have a
name, remove it from the box (as to leave it blank), which defaults to "New
Volume" and click OK.

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