>From the DOS Command line, have you tried "FDisk"? I think it is self explanatory but be careful to format the right disk - Formatting your C Drive would be disastrous.
If in doubt, most basic DOS books will walk you through the procedure or the Help facility in Windows (if you search "FDisk") will give you the info. Hope this helps, John Gilpin. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dilwyn Jones" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "QL Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 17, 2007 9:27 AM Subject: [ql-users] new hard disk > OK, I give up. How do you get Windows XP to format a new second hard > disk? > > I uninstalled the old drive D:\, switched off, restarted, the New > Hardware Wizard found the new drive and it's now listed as drive D:\ > in > Device Manager. > > Now, how do I format it? It doesn't appear in My Computer etc. - > normally you can right click on a drive name and get the context menu > to offer a format command. > > It's almost as if it's not recognised because it's not formatted, but > of course that gives a catch 22 of not being able to format a new hard > disk because > it's not already formatted, so I guess I'm missing some simple course > of action here??? > > Also tried from DOS command line, FORMAT D: just gives "drive not > recognised" error > > F***ing Windoze! (That stood for Flaming, by the way, in case anyone > thought otherwise!) > > This new 250GB drive is to be the home for all my QL stuff, a full > backup of drive C:\ and my music (that way Windoze can do what it > likes with the C:\ drive.) > > -- > Dilwyn Jones > > > > > _______________________________________________ > QL-Users Mailing List > http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
