Maxtor DiamondMax 10 300GB SATA2

[evildan]

hi
i got this hard drive but i cant get my computer to recocnise it

the hard drive im using atm is connected using a thick grey wire but this 1 is connected using a thin wire(i dont know the names)

anyway the hard drive is there on device manager and it says its working fine but the drive isnt listed as a usable drive to save stuff on...i cant access it at all

is there any1 here who knows how to install hard drives and might know whats wrong

 

[Bacardi]

has it been formatted?

 

[evildan]

how do i do that?...........

 

[Bacardi]

this can probably explain it all to u better than i can

http://www.g4tv.com/screensavers/features/29084/Add_a_Second_Hard_Drive.html

 

[Dataforce]

on windows xp:
start > run
type in "mmc" (no ") press enter
file > add/remove snap-in
[add]
Click "Disk Management"
[add]
[finish]
[close]
[ok]
Click "Disk Management" at the left side
the right side will split in 2 horizontally, the top shows drives useable, the other shows all drives
a wizard may appear telling you to initialise a drive or so, go thru that (cant get that to appear, i have no drives that i need todo it with)
scroll down the bottom half utill you see the "unallocated" drive, right click it, goto format
do what it says
give it time to format, then close mmc, choose not to save

 

[urbanfox]

Start>control panel>admin tools>computer management>disk management is on the left hand side.

If you see the HDD as the full 269~GB, then format it.

If you see it as only 128~GB, then install SP2 and then format it.

 

[evildan]

to dataforce and urban

i only get 2 drives showing

my C drive and my cd drive

But if i go to my devices on system info/my devices i can see the drive there

 

[urbanfox]

Install SP2 then.

20 characters.

 

[evildan]

i have sp2.................

should i take some screenshots of my drives to see if theres somthing else i messed up?

 

[urbanfox]

Take a ss of disk managment.

 

[evildan]

i dont know why its not on there

 

[Ragnar]

Right click on the "Disk 1 unallocated", then press create new partition, then when it asks, tell it to do a quick NTFS format, assign a drive letter and youre ready.

 

[urbanfox]

He has to do a full format.

And el oh el, it was there the whole time.

 

[evildan]

thanks >_<

i didnt see the bit down the bottom i was just looking in the top section

/dumbass

 

[Dataforce]

pfft, dont read what i write then i dont mind :P

"scroll down the bottom half utill you see the "unallocated" drive, right click it, goto format" :P