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Format a new Hard Drive when windows does not recognize it?
Hey
I bought a new 80 GB Hard Drive today because my 40 GB wasn't enough space. I opened the siding, hooked it to the power supply and motherboard. I went into the bios and it recognizes it's there/ When I started windows it did an add new hardware thing and said it was all set. When I go into my computer the only drive that is there is the C drive. Apparently the drive needs to be formatted when I examined it further. I do not have a windows install disk or anything. What can I do to format the Hard Drive?(I can't do it in dos because it does not recognize it as D drive.
So what do I do? Thanks
4 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
there is some dos programs you can use to format your drive,but also you can format your non-active disk with windows itself by just right clicking on the drive and choosing format
- Anonymous1 decade ago
If you can see the drive in the control panel/admin tools/computer management/disk management you can set a drive letter and format it from there. If not you need to ensure it is being seen as a slave to the original if it is on the same bus.
- captain3249Lv 61 decade ago
Use Gpartedhttp://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Source(s): The captain - 1 decade ago
Did you check your jumpers. Set you jumpers to secondary/slave then try reformatting it again.. this might work.. if not let me know..
