adding a secondary hard drive

Greetings --

The hard drive cannot appear in Windows Explorer or My Computer
until it
has been partitioned and formatted. Right-click My Computer > Manage

> Disk

Management. Create and format partition(s) on the second hard drive
as
desired.


Bruce Chambers

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"randy corbin" <rsc01@earthlink.net> wrote in message
news:010a01c348c0$18ffbdc0$a501280a@phx.gbl...

> I just added a western digital 120gb hard drive to my
> sony vaio computer. the "bios" recognizes the drive on
> start up, with the part number, size etc.
> the drive shows up as the slave, with my original drive
> as master.....as I set it that way.....
>
>
> the "device manager" recognizes the drive, and says "this
> device is working properly"
>
> however, there's no sign of the hard drive either on "my
> computer", or "explore" menu.....
>
> any help would be greatly appreciated....
>
>

randy corbin wrote:

>I just added a western digital 120gb hard drive to my
>sony vaio computer. the "bios" recognizes the drive on
>start up, with the part number, size etc.
>the drive shows up as the slave, with my original drive
>as master.....as I set it that way.....
>

A new disk needs to have a partition (or partitions) made on it and
formatted to go with whatever operating system is in use. Go to Control
Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management, select Disk Management and
look lower right for the graphic of the drive. R-click in the
Unallocated space and take 'create partition'

Quite likely you will make only one - but consider your use of the disk,
and whether having two or three partitions of different sizes might be
more suitable.

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