New Hard Drive

[Martin]

Hi,

I have installed a second new hard drive which is set as
slave. I need to format the drive. In the computer
mamagement window I can see the drive shown. It does not
have a letter assigned to it.It also says it is not
initialised and the space is unallocated. If I right
click on the drive I am not given an option to format the
drive. How do I go about formatting the new drive. Any
help would be much appreciated.

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

Start/run diskmgmt.msc

Right-click the drive, you need to create a partition before you can format
it.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Win98 Help - www.rickrogers.org

"Martin" > wrote in message
...
> Hi,
>
> I have installed a second new hard drive which is set as
> slave. I need to format the drive. In the computer
> mamagement window I can see the drive shown. It does not
> have a letter assigned to it.It also says it is not
> initialised and the space is unallocated. If I right
> click on the drive I am not given an option to format the
> drive. How do I go about formatting the new drive. Any
> help would be much appreciated.