Re: New HD isn't showing


On Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:59:49 -0500, in alt.sys.pc-clone.dell, "Monica"
<monicakm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Please PLEASE tell me where in Disk Management to assign the drive letter to
>the new drive. Apparently I need to be led by the hand like a 6 year old
>:( I've clicked on everything and nowhere do I see where to do this. Right
>clicking on the drive gives me the following options...New Logical Drive,
>Delete Partition, Help.

I normally use Partition Magic for this, but from your posts and your
screenshot:

You apparently have a partition already.

So what you need to do is use the 'New Logical Drive' option to set up a
logical drive within that partition.

Not sure of the details with Disk Management, but you want to tell it to use
ALL the available space to create the logical drive.

Once you have the logical drive created, then you can format it. Once it's
formatted, Windows should automatically assign it a drive letter (which you
can change).

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Nick <mailto:tanstaafl@xxxxxxxxx>

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