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Drive Addition
Just placed a SATA drive into a Vista Ultimate desktop. I have a total of
three (3) SATA drives yet to be introduced to the system ranging from 120 to 500GB in addition to the 400GB EIDE primary drive. The drive is seen in: BIOS, Device Manager, Computer Management-Disk Management... [All Space unallocated], but not seen in 'My Computer'. In past times, I would see the next available alphabet letter automatically appear. The local help option leads me to a technet page that discusses the creation of volumes, Master Boot Record, GUID Partition tables. The link goes to a Technet site that mentions disk management options for a number of Operating Systems but not Vista. My intention is to use this drive for storage and possibly applications. I would like to cultivate my knowledge of disk management options for Vista. Guidance sought |
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Drive Addition
It is not seen in MyComputer because the space is unallocated...unformatted.
Once you format the drive Vista will see it under Device Manager. here is a little info on the various options http://www.vista4beginners.com/How-t...anagement-tool peter -- If you find a posting or message from me offensive,inappropriate or disruptive,please ignore it. If you dont know how to ignore a posting complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate :-) "MNewsome" wrote in message ... Just placed a SATA drive into a Vista Ultimate desktop. I have a total of three (3) SATA drives yet to be introduced to the system ranging from 120 to 500GB in addition to the 400GB EIDE primary drive. The drive is seen in: BIOS, Device Manager, Computer Management-Disk Management... [All Space unallocated], but not seen in 'My Computer'. In past times, I would see the next available alphabet letter automatically appear. The local help option leads me to a technet page that discusses the creation of volumes, Master Boot Record, GUID Partition tables. The link goes to a Technet site that mentions disk management options for a number of Operating Systems but not Vista. My intention is to use this drive for storage and possibly applications. I would like to cultivate my knowledge of disk management options for Vista. Guidance sought |
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Drive Addition
Adding a drive doesnt make it available for use, you have to format it.
Generally using disk management Thats the way its allways been, its not Vista specific "MNewsome" wrote in message ... Just placed a SATA drive into a Vista Ultimate desktop. I have a total of three (3) SATA drives yet to be introduced to the system ranging from 120 to 500GB in addition to the 400GB EIDE primary drive. The drive is seen in: BIOS, Device Manager, Computer Management-Disk Management... [All Space unallocated], but not seen in 'My Computer'. In past times, I would see the next available alphabet letter automatically appear. The local help option leads me to a technet page that discusses the creation of volumes, Master Boot Record, GUID Partition tables. The link goes to a Technet site that mentions disk management options for a number of Operating Systems but not Vista. My intention is to use this drive for storage and possibly applications. I would like to cultivate my knowledge of disk management options for Vista. Guidance sought |