[aclug-L] Re: Second or new harddrive in WinXP?

[Jonathan Hall <jonhall@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I don't know how XP works specifically, but you will need to run fdisk (or
any other partitioning utility--Partition magic, or whatever software (if
any) comes with your drive).  XP may have some graphical fdisk program, but
I dunno.  I'd just run 'fdisk' from a command prompt (or Start -> Run) and
see what happens.

Once this is done, you will likely need to reboot.  Then you'll need to
format the newly created partition(s).  Either use the 'format' command from
a command prompt, or right-click the drive in My Computer and select
"Format"

-- Jonathan


On Fri, May 03, 2002 at 11:47:16PM -0500, David Carmichael wrote:
> 
> Ok everybody don't jump on me... but I am wanting to add a second harddrive
> to a WinXP system and I am a bit confused.
> 
> In Linux, and most older versions of windows you needed to do a 'FDISK' to
> set up you partitions, outside of the main operating system.
> 
> Do you not need to do this on a WinXP system??
> 
> Everything I can seem to find on the topic says to just install the hardware
> per manufacture, Turn on computer, allow XP to start and run "compmgmt.msc"
> to create partitions and format the drive...
> 
> Do you really do this inside of Windows now?
> 
> 
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