getting a harddrive to appear

[Pyraine]

I want my D drive to appear, i partitioned it and installed a new OS to the partition, but the half of it i want to keep doesn't appear in 'My Computer' and i want it to, anyone know how i can get it there?

 

[urbanfox]

I want my D drive to appear, i partitioned it and installed a new OS to the partition, but the half of it i want to keep doesn't appear in 'My Computer' and i want it to, anyone know how i can get it there?

I don't understand.

Your running off of the D drive and you can't see the C drive partition even though it is on the same physical HDD? Are both partitions formatted?

Type it again, like:

Physical drive 1 has two partitions, C and D. C is storage but my OS on D cannot see it. C and D both run X filesystem and I have x OS on drive D.


Start>control panel>administrative tools>computer management>storage>disk management

to see if you need to format any un-used space or to a new filesystem.

 

[Pyraine]

Physical Drive 1 has no partitions and I am running Windows on this one, it is 40GB in total, it's labelled, C. Physical Drive 2, 160GB, has 2 partitions, one with Linux on it, one with no OS on it, before I partitioned it had no OS on it, and was used as a virtual disk for file storage only and was kept under 'My Computer' labelled, D. Now I have partitioned and added Linux there is no longer a drive labelled D available

 

[urbanfox]

Start>control panel>administrative tools>computer management>storage>disk management


post screeny, should look like this

 

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Physical Drive 1 has no partitions and I am running Windows on this one, it is 40GB in total, it's labelled, C. Physical Drive 2, 160GB, has 2 partitions, one with Linux on it, one with no OS on it, before I partitioned it had no OS on it, and was used as a virtual disk for file storage only and was kept under 'My Computer' labelled, D. Now I have partitioned and added Linux there is no longer a drive labelled D available

Linux drives cannot be read in Windows, i'm sure you know. So i'm guessing you partitioned the 160gb drive into 2 sections, right? one for Linux, one for storage?

Check with a partition tool, like Partition Magic, to ensure linux didn't swallow the whole HD.

 

[Pyraine]

here is the screenshot

 

[urbanfox]

here is the screenshot

That's what I thought.

Right click what I circled>format>change to ntfs file system>ok

and then wait.

 

[Pyraine]

where is the 'format' option?

 

[urbanfox]

where is the 'format' option?

Did you right click what I circled in paint on the image?

 

[Pyraine]

yes it says 'New Partion' 'Properties' and 'Help'

 

[urbanfox]

yes it says 'New Partion' 'Properties' and 'Help'

mew partition, sorry, ntfs file system.

 

[Pyraine]

Ok that's progress but now when i click it in my computer it says something about 'Parameter incorrect'

EDIT: didn't realise it was still formatting, sorry

 

[urbanfox]

Ok that's progress but now when i click it in my computer it says something about 'Parameter incorrect'

EDIT: didn't realise it was still formatting, sorry

Try this
http://www.soft32.com/download_151.html


Could be a linux thing, although if it's not partitioned it shouldn't matter, but tbh I have never seen that before.

 

[Pyraine]

its 100% formatted now and works fine..

jeez, the day i have a windows problem that urban can't sort out, is the day the world ends

 

[urbanfox]

its 100% formatted now and works fine..

jeez, the day i have a windows problem that urban can't sort out, is the day the world ends

I just get lucky, that's all.