how do i set up a slave HDD on xp home

[M.Taylor]

i just connected a 2nd HDD to my pc and it doesnt show in
my computer although it shows as connected in my bios and
in the device manager
please help me i have been trying to do this all day

[Jim Macklin]

Right click the My Computer, select manage, the storage-disk
management...you have to partition and format the drive.


"M.Taylor" <mark_taylor2003@yahoo> wrote in message
...
| i just connected a 2nd HDD to my pc and it doesnt show in
| my computer although it shows as connected in my bios and
| in the device manager
| please help me i have been trying to do this all day

[M.Taylor]

thanks jim that sorted it
but the HDD is showing as 31.49gb when it should be 120gb
why is this?

[Peter]

Hi,

Are you formatted in FAT32? It has a limitation to 32GB.
You can continue to partition the slave HD to several
partitions or you can delete the partition and then
reformat it to NTFS.

The other way round is to install Partition Magic 8.0. It
can resize, remove, add, merge, backup and many other
features for your hard disk. Try download the trial
version from powerquest.com

Remove the first letter m for email.

Peter

Peter
>-----Original Message-----
>
>thanks jim that sorted it
>but the HDD is showing as 31.49gb when it should be 120gb
>why is this?
>.
>

[Jim Macklin]

The trial version works only to the point of being a dummy
gui, it won't complete any operation.

XP is best with NTFS, just reformat the new drive in NTFS.


"Peter" > wrote in message
...
| Hi,
|
| Are you formatted in FAT32? It has a limitation to 32GB.
| You can continue to partition the slave HD to several
| partitions or you can delete the partition and then
| reformat it to NTFS.
|
| The other way round is to install Partition Magic 8.0. It
| can resize, remove, add, merge, backup and many other
| features for your hard disk. Try download the trial
| version from powerquest.com
|
| Remove the first letter m for email.
|
| Peter
|
| Peter
| >-----Original Message-----
| >
| >thanks jim that sorted it
| >but the HDD is showing as 31.49gb when it should be 120gb
| >why is this?
| >.
| >

[M.Taylor]

i did reformat in NTFS but it still shows as 31.49gb

[Bob Willard]

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M.Taylor wrote:
> i did reformat in NTFS but it still shows as 31.49gb

Some HDs have jumpers to cap the size at 32 GB. RTFM for
your HD to find out. If you HD came without a manual, you
can find one and download it on the HD vendor's website.
--
Cheers, Bob

[Alex Nichol]

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M.Taylor wrote:

>
>i did reformat in NTFS but it still shows as 31.49gb

If you first created a partition as FAT 32 reformatting to NTFS will
not expand it; just reformat You can either

Right click the remaining free space in the lower right of the Disk
Management where there is a graphic of the disk, and create partition,
saying you want all the rest of the space used, and making it NTFS -
thus having two partitions on the drive

Or right click the present partition, delete it, so that all the space
is free, then r-click again and create partition - using the lot in NTFS

--=20
Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K.