Re: New Harddrive Initalization

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From: Carey Frisch [MVP] (mrxp2004_at_nospamyahoo.com)
Date: 06/26/04 

Date: Sat, 26 Jun 2004 16:25:39 -0500

Try the following:

Right-click on MY COMPUTER and select MANAGE.
Click on DISK MANAGEMENT and in the lower right-hand
window (gray shaded area), right-click on your second drive
and select INITIALIZE DISK.

If that does not work:

Go to Start > Run and type: CMD , and hit enter.
In the Command Prompt window, type: DISKPART , hit enter.
Then type: RESCAN , hit enter.
Try initializing the disk again.

How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?kbid=309000 

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Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
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"SibilantVinyl" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message:
 news:21d3901c45bba$be7a0950$a101280a@phx.gbl...
| HI
|  Can anyone help? I am trying to add a new larger 
| harddrive to my computer, to transfer data from a smaller 
| one onto.  The computer recognises that it is there but 
| it needs to be initalized. How do I do this?? I can't 
| find DISk MANAGEMENT on my computer.

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