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Second Harddrive Working ,........BUT??

Postby Torquay-Pete » Wed Jul 28, 2004 7:02 pm

Hi to all
I have just installed a second 160GB hard-drive along side my normal 80GB one, I followed all your given instructions from a couple of days ago,
This is running as slave and according to the Device Manager is working properly. Here is the But......it is not showing on My Computer so how do I access this to format the drive? and will this show up once I have formatted it, and finally will I need to / have to partition this???? HELP please :oops:
Pete :mad:
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Postby Torquay-Pete » Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:04 pm

Panic over!!! I have managed to sort this out for myself :lol:
Thanks anyway Pete :twisted:
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Postby liljim » Wed Jul 28, 2004 9:59 pm

Glad you got it going pete but i wanted to add for the record that it needs to be partitioned first,then formatted.Windows wont see a completely blank HDD.
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