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Installing a New Western Digital Drive--Finished
Thanks for your patience on this long post. I finally called WD and
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Installing a New Western Digital Drive--Finished
Thanks for your patience on this long post. I finally called WD and
asked for support, $15. The drive is kaput. I'm buying a replacement. |
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"W. eWatson" wrote in message
smlunatick wrote: On Nov 24, 5:33 am, "W. eWatson" wrote: W. eWatson wrote: Yes, that's fine, but if my system doesn't know it's there, how would that work? Something I didn't mention earlier is that I'm using W2K. There are practically zero posts over there on hardware. I went to a repair shop awhile ago and explained what I observed. He said try SP4 for W2k. Disk management (diskmgmt.msc) will see it and allow you to format it when My Computer doesn't even see it. If the partition size(s) hasn't been set, formatted, and made active, My Computer doesn't know it's there. SP4 would be nice to have on it, but it's not going to help with the problem. SC Tom Thanks anyway. I discovered diskmgmt.msc minutes ago. I also enlisted the aid of WD diagnostic tool. See my post just a minute ago. I put SP4 on it, but it didn't change anything for this problem. You may be right about formatting it. I've lost the instruction manual. I'll go ahead and do it. Well, running diagnostics said the drive was OK, but it has no way to format it, nor does diskmgmt.msc, as far as I can tell. I see something about a volume, but am not sure what to use if it does indeed format a drive. It shows the slave as drive 1, and wanted me to write a signature, which I did. It shows that drive as 7.87G, which probably its wild guess at the unformatted drive. You must first "define" a partition with Disk Management, on the drive before you can format it. I'm sure you are right, but here's my problem now. It appears diskmgmt.msc is different between W2K and XP. I'm, of course, using W2K. If I look at help it wants me to right click on disk 1 to see a menu with Partition on it. Well, the only choice is pretty much Create Volume. When I do I get a volume wizard. It shows the max size for the volume as 8G. There are two windows. The right one says Disk 1 and the other is empty. Betwen them are arrow pointing to the left. One is remove volume, and the other is remove all. I select remove volume, and the size drops to 0 and Disk 1 appears in the left window. Going further gets me nowhere. In factt, the dynamic volume disk1 hasn't changed. Very odd. I think there's a disk mgmt in Control Panel that may be different. Dunno. I found it on my XP machine. If I dig around, I might find a CD from Western D that has something that'll solve this. I do have Partition Magic but it's not on the W2k machine. Maybe it's time to put it there. You should either install Partition Magic ot the WD Tools (Acronis True Image WD Edition) to partition/format the drive. Acronis True Image WD Edition: http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...id=502&lang=en -- Brian A. Sesko Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://members.shaw.ca/dts-l/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 |
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"W. eWatson" wrote in message
smlunatick wrote: On Nov 24, 5:33 am, "W. eWatson" wrote: W. eWatson wrote: Yes, that's fine, but if my system doesn't know it's there, how would that work? Something I didn't mention earlier is that I'm using W2K. There are practically zero posts over there on hardware. I went to a repair shop awhile ago and explained what I observed. He said try SP4 for W2k. Disk management (diskmgmt.msc) will see it and allow you to format it when My Computer doesn't even see it. If the partition size(s) hasn't been set, formatted, and made active, My Computer doesn't know it's there. SP4 would be nice to have on it, but it's not going to help with the problem. SC Tom Thanks anyway. I discovered diskmgmt.msc minutes ago. I also enlisted the aid of WD diagnostic tool. See my post just a minute ago. I put SP4 on it, but it didn't change anything for this problem. You may be right about formatting it. I've lost the instruction manual. I'll go ahead and do it. Well, running diagnostics said the drive was OK, but it has no way to format it, nor does diskmgmt.msc, as far as I can tell. I see something about a volume, but am not sure what to use if it does indeed format a drive. It shows the slave as drive 1, and wanted me to write a signature, which I did. It shows that drive as 7.87G, which probably its wild guess at the unformatted drive. You must first "define" a partition with Disk Management, on the drive before you can format it. I'm sure you are right, but here's my problem now. It appears diskmgmt.msc is different between W2K and XP. I'm, of course, using W2K. If I look at help it wants me to right click on disk 1 to see a menu with Partition on it. Well, the only choice is pretty much Create Volume. When I do I get a volume wizard. It shows the max size for the volume as 8G. There are two windows. The right one says Disk 1 and the other is empty. Betwen them are arrow pointing to the left. One is remove volume, and the other is remove all. I select remove volume, and the size drops to 0 and Disk 1 appears in the left window. Going further gets me nowhere. In factt, the dynamic volume disk1 hasn't changed. Very odd. I think there's a disk mgmt in Control Panel that may be different. Dunno. I found it on my XP machine. If I dig around, I might find a CD from Western D that has something that'll solve this. I do have Partition Magic but it's not on the W2k machine. Maybe it's time to put it there. You should either install Partition Magic ot the WD Tools (Acronis True Image WD Edition) to partition/format the drive. Acronis True Image WD Edition: http://support.wdc.com/product/downl...id=502&lang=en -- Brian A. Sesko Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://members.shaw.ca/dts-l/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 |
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Installing a New Western Digital Drive--Finished
"W. eWatson" wrote in message
Thanks for your patience on this long post. I finally called WD and asked for support, $15. The drive is kaput. I'm buying a replacement. If the drive was new and still under warranty you shouldn't have to pay anything or buy a replacement. -- Brian A. Sesko Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://members.shaw.ca/dts-l/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 |
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Installing a New Western Digital Drive--Finished
"W. eWatson" wrote in message
Thanks for your patience on this long post. I finally called WD and asked for support, $15. The drive is kaput. I'm buying a replacement. If the drive was new and still under warranty you shouldn't have to pay anything or buy a replacement. -- Brian A. Sesko Conflicts start where information lacks. http://basconotw.mvps.org/ Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://members.shaw.ca/dts-l/goodpost.htm How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 |
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