new harddisk not appearing in vista

2007-08-04 08:35:55

#1

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6671

Just got a Samsung spinpoint t66 500gb etc etc hard drive - mounted it, plugged it in, sorted it out in the bios. I intend to use it for storage for now (while my current 200gb hdd will keep the vista installation). Vista recognised a new harddrive when it started up, and installed the software. It recognises it's there, and I can find it in the device manager, but I can't find it in my computer.

http://img466.imageshack.us/img466/6498/screenel4.jpg -< l'info.

How do i get it to show up in vista? (the current "two" harddrives that you can see are partitions of my 200GB hdd, by the way)

Last edited by SargeV1.4 (2007-08-04 08:36:40)

2007-08-04 08:46:44

#2

ssonrats: Member; +221|6663

The pic isn't working for me =/

2007-08-04 08:49:39

#3

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6671

the picture works fine

2007-08-04 08:53:03

#4

ssonrats: Member; +221|6663

Has it been formatted? *hides

2007-08-04 08:54:26

#5

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6671

Vista should be able to do that as it's not being used by anything

right?

2007-08-04 08:57:22

#6

ssonrats: Member; +221|6663

I dunno anything about vista mate, sorry, but in xp it needs to be formatted with a partition etc iirc.

2007-08-04 08:59:11

#7

chittydog: less busy; +586|6853|Kubra, Damn it!

It should be able to, but it won't format it until you tell it to. I don't know about Vista, but other versions of Windows required you to go to Disk Management and format it there before it shows up elsewhere.

2007-08-04 09:00:48

#8

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6671

just what I did chitty manage computer -> disk management -> format it

It's going to take fucking ages by the looks of it so I'm going to get some food

thanks, later

2007-08-04 09:07:11

#9

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6456|King Of The Islands

SargeV1.4 wrote:
just what I did chitty manage computer -> disk management -> format it

It's going to take fucking ages by the looks of it so I'm going to get some food

thanks, later

Oh god, he didn't choose Quick Format.

Or should that be lol?

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2007-08-04 09:20:20

#10

Lucien: Fantasma Parastasie; +1,451|6671

i did anyway. quick format seems to have worked fine, luckily.

Now, does anyone know how to delete files beyond the capabilities of windows itself? I can't get rid of some directories on my old drive. All I want it to have is windows and programs, but some directories contain old windows-protected files from an automatic backup that I can't delete.

2007-08-04 09:32:12

#11

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6456|King Of The Islands

Uh... System Restore? Stop the service then start it again, it makes a new one.

My state was founded by Batman. Your opinion is invalid.

2007-08-04 18:39:38

#12

killinzero1: Member; +14|6405

Cheez wrote:
SargeV1.4 wrote:
just what I did chitty manage computer -> disk management -> format it

It's going to take fucking ages by the looks of it so I'm going to get some food

thanks, later
Oh god, he didn't choose Quick Format.

Or should that be lol?

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