Sounds if it is not partitioned yet! Easiest way to o this is to - Right-click My Computer and select "Manage" - Select Disk Management You should then be shown your hard disks and have menu options to partition and/or format them.
Dave -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dilwyn Jones Sent: 17 April 2007 09:27 To: QL Users List 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
