WD 120 GB disk drive, unknown partition.

[Chayes]

I recently installed a new 120 GB hardrive in addition to
my 80 GB. The bios, XP and Partition magic all
recognized that the hardrive exists. When I go into to
disk mangament I can't format or access the drive. I
tried deleting then reformating it. XP assigned it a
letter and allowed me access only during that session.
When I reboot everything reverts back to the previous
setup. I tried turning off System Restore, but the same
thing happened. The hard drive also does the same with
Partition Magic although I've done each method separately.
When I installed the HD initially I used the disk it came
with it to format it as NTFS.

[Alvin A Brown]

Hello

What it you just tried formatting the drive with using the Partition
Magic
and just use Win XP OS to format the drive, and see what happens,
but give that a try

Al


Chayes wrote:

> I recently installed a new 120 GB hardrive in addition to
> my 80 GB. The bios, XP and Partition magic all
> recognized that the hardrive exists. When I go into to
> disk mangament I can't format or access the drive. I
> tried deleting then reformating it. XP assigned it a
> letter and allowed me access only during that session.
> When I reboot everything reverts back to the previous
> setup. I tried turning off System Restore, but the same
> thing happened. The hard drive also does the same with
> Partition Magic although I've done each method separately.
> When I installed the HD initially I used the disk it came
> with it to format it as NTFS.