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Old September 22nd 10, 03:46 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
mdizzl
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On XP Home. I have had two hard drives, and a long time ago I
reconfigured the hardware profiles to try to save power and heat.
Now, after a while with only one internal drive, I have installed a
second drive.
I cannot get it to recognize a new hard drive that I installed.

Is there a way to reset the "hardware profiles" config??

I can see the drive on the device manager. It's there and working
properly. It's not showing up on "My Computer"

Any ideas?
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Old September 22nd 10, 09:48 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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Default cannot find a new hard drive

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mdizzl writes:
On XP Home. I have had two hard drives, and a long time ago I
reconfigured the hardware profiles to try to save power and heat.
Now, after a while with only one internal drive, I have installed a
second drive.
I cannot get it to recognize a new hard drive that I installed.

Is there a way to reset the "hardware profiles" config??

I can see the drive on the device manager. It's there and working
properly. It's not showing up on "My Computer"

Any ideas?


Silly question, but have you partitioned/formatted it? (And is it either
on a different IDE channel, or set as slave? The fact that you can see
it in some places suggests that it is.)
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Old September 23rd 10, 01:50 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
mdizzl
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Default cannot find a new hard drive

Thanks, J.P. I have not, in fact, formatted it. I can do so via USB
connection, I suppose (with an adapter I have) although it is straight
out of the box, so *should* be formatted...??

I will definitely look at the slave status - that's a great idea.
Thanks!

Matt

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Old September 24th 10, 01:58 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.customize
mdizzl
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On Sep 23, 8:50*am, mdizzl wrote:
Thanks, J.P. *I have not, in fact, formatted it. *I can do so via USB
connection, I suppose (with an adapter I have) although it is straight
out of the box, so *should* be formatted...??

I will definitely look at the slave status - that's a great idea.
Thanks!

Matt


Partitioning under Disk Manager worked. Thanks!
 




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