>> 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.) >> >> > In windows XP, right click on 'My Computer' (Either on the start > menu or > on the desktop if you have the icon there), from the menu click on > manage. A new window will appear, on the left click on Disk > Management, > there you'll see your new drive (probably without a partition), > right > click on the drive 'bar' on the right and select 'Create new > partition', > then follow the prompts. > > Your new drive will then be partitioned and formatted for you and > should > then be usable. Many thanks everyone who responded so quickly.
After sending the original email, I dug out an old small capacity (40MB?) Qubide format hard disk I'd somehow managed not to throw away years ago and hooked this up. Both the FDISK & FORMAT programs and Disk Management managed to reformat this drive OK, so I went back to the new drive and tried again (having written down step by step how I got the old drive to format). Sadly, no joy. It seems all I can get out of the new drive is its identification string, I can't get it to work using either FDISK + FORMAT or from Disk Management. I'll get in touch with the supplier as it's probably DOA - it's advertised as a very quiet drive (Hitachi Deskstar) but it seems to get very noisy when the computer starts it up, probably an indication all is not well. Shame, I was looking forward to using my first day off since Easter to put all my QL software onto one single drive rather than being scattered between two hard disks and several CDs and DVDs etc. The PC presently has a 40GB and 80GB drives and I'd found it impossible to resist this 250GB drive for just 40 pounds. Must say one thing: having your day to day QL software in a single QXL.WIN makes it sooo easy to make a backup...just one file to copy in Windoze, whether it goes to a CD/DVD or to the second hard drive! -- Dilwyn Jones _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
