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Initializing new HDD
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I've just connected a new replacement Internal 500gb HDD for backing up on a winXp Pro SP3 machine. I got the new hardware found message after booting up, but the HDD wasn't showing in my computer page. I then went to disk management and a wizard came up to initialize the new HDD, the first box marked "initialize" was already ticked, so I went to the next step where there was another box unchecked "select one or more disks to convert to dynamic" and I don't know wether I should tick this or not! can someone please advise me how to proceed? -- Regards p.mc |
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p.mc wrote:
I've just connected a new replacement Internal 500gb HDD for backing up on a winXp Pro SP3 machine. I got the new hardware found message after booting up, but the HDD wasn't showing in my computer page. I then went to disk management and a wizard came up to initialize the new HDD, the first box marked "initialize" was already ticked, so I went to the next step where there was another box unchecked "select one or more disks to convert to dynamic" and I don't know wether I should tick this or not! can someone please advise me how to proceed? "I've just connected a new replacement Internal 500gb HDD for backing up on a winXp Pro SP3 machine." Eh? This is not backup - unless you plan on removing the hard disk drive from the machine after you have performed the backup. It might be cloning, it might be replication, it might be a place to copy things for an extra copy - but being it is in the same physical machine - I would not call it backup. ;-) "I got the new hardware found message after booting up, but the HDD wasn't showing in my computer page." You put in the hard disk drive and you booted right into Windows XP? Did you go into the system BIOS and tell the hardware "Here is the new hard disk drive - allow all my software to see it" at any point? "I then went to disk management and a wizard came up to initialize the new HDD, the first box marked "initialize" was already ticked, so I went to the next step where there was another box unchecked "select one or more disks to convert to dynamic" and I don't know wether I should tick this or not! can someone please advise me how to proceed?" See what I just said. Have you told the hardware what you installed? Once you do that, initialize, format and don't make anything dynamic - it's pretty much beyond your needs/current capabilities. As for other suggestions - actually get a backup drive (I suggest for you a Seagate Replica 500GB - external, USB connected, will backup everything - EVERYTHING - easily and in a manner where (dependent on how ofter you disconnect/reconnect it to take it to an external location for safe keeping (actually making it a backup, IMO) ) you can restore individual files, versions of individual files and/or the entire machine from a catastrophic event (power surge that blows out all internal components - for example.) Good Luck! -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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p.mc typed: Hi I've just connected a new replacement Internal 500gb HDD for backing up on a winXp Pro SP3 machine. I got the new hardware found message after booting up, but the HDD wasn't showing in my computer page. I then went to disk management and a wizard came up to initialize the new HDD, the first box marked "initialize" was already ticked, so I went to the next step where there was another box unchecked "select one or more disks to convert to dynamic" and I don't know wether I should tick this or not! can someone please advise me how to proceed? "already ticked" probably was just something it filled in for you: you should have run that section before going to the next stage. Try it again and run the "initialize" choice. Didn't the drive come with instructions on how to install it? If not, try going to the manufacturer's web site and see if it's online there. If not, give the drive model and manufacturer and I'll bet someone can locate the install instructions for you if you can't get anything from the above. It sounds like you skipped the initiation. About backups: An internal drive such as you have is not the best way to use a drive for backup purposes. Anything that affects your boot drive could just as easily take out the backup drive too, and then your backups are lost. The best idea is to 1. Get an external drive (500 Gig or larger) that plugs into a USB port. Usually they're a very simple install and it's all done for you when the drve comes up the first time. Send all backup data to the external drive. Now you can unplug and protect the external drive from any damage caused inside the computer by viruses, worms, trojans and other malware. 2. Periodically, or whenever there has been substantial changes to your machine, make a full backup to the external drive and then burn that backup to DVDs also so it will always be available in case you can't use the backup from the external drive or it gets overwritten on the external drive. I try to make DVDs once a month here, but often skip a month because nothing changed much. Also I'd like to commend you for getting a backup strategy going even if you don't have an external drive yet. You'll find it can save you an immense amount of frustration and lost data. Way too many people don't take the time or "bother" but once you're set up and working it can be a real lifesaver. HTH, Twayne` |
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Thanks all. I jumped the gun and let it initialize and formatted it as an
NTFS basic disc. I then targeted "My Documents" folder to this new HDD and moved its contents over to it. This drive is used mainly for non programs but storage and scratch disk etc.And your info was quite right about back ups. I don't know why I typed that I should have typed "Storage" because I do infact have an external USB2 500gb HDD for that reason. My set up 80gb internal HDD...C:\ Drive... For programs only. 500gb internal...D:\ Drive...Storage...Huge "My Documents" folder for storage & scratch discs etc. 500gb external...M:\ Drive...Back ups -- Regards p.mc "Twayne" wrote in message ... In , p.mc typed: Hi I've just connected a new replacement Internal 500gb HDD for backing up on a winXp Pro SP3 machine. I got the new hardware found message after booting up, but the HDD wasn't showing in my computer page. I then went to disk management and a wizard came up to initialize the new HDD, the first box marked "initialize" was already ticked, so I went to the next step where there was another box unchecked "select one or more disks to convert to dynamic" and I don't know wether I should tick this or not! can someone please advise me how to proceed? "already ticked" probably was just something it filled in for you: you should have run that section before going to the next stage. Try it again and run the "initialize" choice. Didn't the drive come with instructions on how to install it? If not, try going to the manufacturer's web site and see if it's online there. If not, give the drive model and manufacturer and I'll bet someone can locate the install instructions for you if you can't get anything from the above. It sounds like you skipped the initiation. About backups: An internal drive such as you have is not the best way to use a drive for backup purposes. Anything that affects your boot drive could just as easily take out the backup drive too, and then your backups are lost. The best idea is to 1. Get an external drive (500 Gig or larger) that plugs into a USB port. Usually they're a very simple install and it's all done for you when the drve comes up the first time. Send all backup data to the external drive. Now you can unplug and protect the external drive from any damage caused inside the computer by viruses, worms, trojans and other malware. 2. Periodically, or whenever there has been substantial changes to your machine, make a full backup to the external drive and then burn that backup to DVDs also so it will always be available in case you can't use the backup from the external drive or it gets overwritten on the external drive. I try to make DVDs once a month here, but often skip a month because nothing changed much. Also I'd like to commend you for getting a backup strategy going even if you don't have an external drive yet. You'll find it can save you an immense amount of frustration and lost data. Way too many people don't take the time or "bother" but once you're set up and working it can be a real lifesaver. HTH, Twayne` |
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On 06/06/2010 08:43 AM, p.mc wrote:
Hi I've just connected a new replacement Internal 500gb HDD for backing up on a winXp Pro SP3 machine. I got the new hardware found message after booting up, but the HDD wasn't showing in my computer page. I then went to disk management and a wizard came up to initialize the new HDD, the first box marked "initialize" was already ticked, so I went to the next step where there was another box unchecked "select one or more disks to convert to dynamic" and I don't know wether I should tick this or not! can someone please advise me how to proceed? Nope do not take the dynamic disc option just format the drive as NTFS and that's all you need to do |
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I wouldn't give up on making
that new hard drive as a place to keep backups. in addition to my doc's you can also keep backups of your registry, like with a program called "eusing" you can also keep disk images on it, like with a program called "drive image xml" it you decide to use drive image xml, then here are a couple of tips: firstly, be sure you select cd size imaging and place each set of images in a folder named with the date you made the images. also the program may make the images in a folder on the main hard drive. however, you can move that folder to the new drive. secondly, you can make a bootable disk with barts pe. if you create the disk above, be sure to include the plug-ins for drive image xml. --------------------- I think you made a wise decision for using your new hard drive for my documents. but you may also want to make a copy of my doc's in another folder. you can use microsofts sync toy for the above or make a straight copy via the explorer. although it may seem redundant to make a copy of my doc's I have learned that the copy ensures you have an additional resource in case a mistake is made with the original file(s). -- -- db·´¯`·...¸)))º DatabaseBen, Retired Professional ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ This NNTP newsgroup is evolving to: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/default.aspx "p.mc" wrote in message ... Thanks all. I jumped the gun and let it initialize and formatted it as an NTFS basic disc. I then targeted "My Documents" folder to this new HDD and moved its contents over to it. This drive is used mainly for non programs but storage and scratch disk etc.And your info was quite right about back ups. I don't know why I typed that I should have typed "Storage" because I do infact have an external USB2 500gb HDD for that reason. My set up 80gb internal HDD...C:\ Drive... For programs only. 500gb internal...D:\ Drive...Storage...Huge "My Documents" folder for storage & scratch discs etc. 500gb external...M:\ Drive...Back ups -- Regards p.mc "Twayne" wrote in message ... In , p.mc typed: Hi I've just connected a new replacement Internal 500gb HDD for backing up on a winXp Pro SP3 machine. I got the new hardware found message after booting up, but the HDD wasn't showing in my computer page. I then went to disk management and a wizard came up to initialize the new HDD, the first box marked "initialize" was already ticked, so I went to the next step where there was another box unchecked "select one or more disks to convert to dynamic" and I don't know wether I should tick this or not! can someone please advise me how to proceed? "already ticked" probably was just something it filled in for you: you should have run that section before going to the next stage. Try it again and run the "initialize" choice. Didn't the drive come with instructions on how to install it? If not, try going to the manufacturer's web site and see if it's online there. If not, give the drive model and manufacturer and I'll bet someone can locate the install instructions for you if you can't get anything from the above. It sounds like you skipped the initiation. About backups: An internal drive such as you have is not the best way to use a drive for backup purposes. Anything that affects your boot drive could just as easily take out the backup drive too, and then your backups are lost. The best idea is to 1. Get an external drive (500 Gig or larger) that plugs into a USB port. Usually they're a very simple install and it's all done for you when the drve comes up the first time. Send all backup data to the external drive. Now you can unplug and protect the external drive from any damage caused inside the computer by viruses, worms, trojans and other malware. 2. Periodically, or whenever there has been substantial changes to your machine, make a full backup to the external drive and then burn that backup to DVDs also so it will always be available in case you can't use the backup from the external drive or it gets overwritten on the external drive. I try to make DVDs once a month here, but often skip a month because nothing changed much. Also I'd like to commend you for getting a backup strategy going even if you don't have an external drive yet. You'll find it can save you an immense amount of frustration and lost data. Way too many people don't take the time or "bother" but once you're set up and working it can be a real lifesaver. HTH, Twayne` |
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This is really good thing man, if I will take my all the backups in the external HDD then there will be no need of any other back ups and the fear of loss. Actually that can help us to secure our data. For any reason if our data will be lost then we don't have to worry because we have the backup.
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mjecson wrote:
This is really good thing man, if I will take my all the backups in the external HDD then there will be no need of any other back ups and the fear of loss. Actually that can help us to secure our data. For any reason if our data will be lost then we don't have to worry because we have the backup. mjecson, I thought if I discovered whom you were replying to, your response make more sense. To that end, I looked up the conversation in Google Groups which... http://groups.google.com/group/micro...c352a98b99766/ Didn't help me figure out what you may have even thought you were trying to say in the least. -- Shenan Stanley MS-MVP -- How To Ask Questions The Smart Way http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html |
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I had encountered the same problem too. Actually, I have tried many things and ideas I got from the net but nothing has solved my problem. Well, thanks for all your ideas and help through here because I finally have solved my problem in my new HDD.
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Really too informative and awesome sharing
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