>OK, I give up. How do you get Windows XP to format a new second hard >disk? The answer is simple if not very intuitive. Windows hides the Device manger because ;yer casual user' can easily destroy the system from there.
Go to the start menu, right click anywhere and choose 'properties', In the Start Menu tab choose 'advanced', In that choose 'advanced' again. Scroll down to 'System Administrative Tools' and choose 'Display on the All programs menu and the start menu'. Click OK. Then go to the start menu choose 'Administrative Tools', Choose Computer Management, Choose Disk Management You will see you unformatted and uninitiated .Drive there. First Initiate it and then format or partition it. -- Roy Wood Q Branch. 20 Locks Hill, Portslade, Sussex.BN41 2LB Tel: +44 (0) 1273 386030 fax: +44 (0) 1273 430501 skype : royqbranch web : www.qbranch.demon.co.uk _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
