Hard Drive detection & Formating

[JohnPondex]

Please Help..
I have just bought a new Hard Drive (Maxtor 40 GB)
and connected it to my desktop. when I ty to
bootup .. it cannot be detected.... How do I detect the hard drive and format it.

[ChrisC]

You should boot up to a boot disk and run FDISK and FORMAT.  Then they can be detected.

Or, Windows2000 install will do it all for you if this is the disk where you will be installing the Windows.

Chris C.

[MalikTous]

If it fails to detect in BIOS, set the jumpers right. Try the primary drive as Master with slave and the new one as Slave, and if that fails try both in Cable Select. When you boot up, insure that your BIOS is set to recognise both drives on your primary IDE channel.

If it recognises in BIOS but not in Windows, you need to use drive administration (FDISK in Win9x and Drive Admin in XP/NT) to partition and format the empty drive.

[merlin_2]

what operating system have you got ?and how old is this laptop?

[I_Use_Vista]

You should boot up to a boot disk and run FDISK and FORMAT.

[Allan]

Forget all the posts above for the moment. What Operating System do you plan to install?

[Carbon Dudeoxide]

Forget all the posts for a moment.....Why are you posting in a 5 year old topic?

 

[Allan]

Forget all the posts for a moment.....Why are you posting in a 5 year old topic?

 

Wow - I never even looked.