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

[David Carmichael <dec2955@xxxxxxxxxx>]

FYI:

Ok I just went ahead and installed the harddrive after blowing away the
older FAT32 partition and connected it as the second drive to the XP system
with out 'FDISK'ing the drive, {really on the system in question I had to
set the drive as cable select on the jumpers}

Set the BIOS and rebooted.

On reboot allowed XP to startup.

It found the new hardware and a wizard popped up allowing me to set the
partition size and format the drive with either FAT32 or NTFS.

Shoot in many ways that was a whole lot easier than the FDISK + FORMAT way
of getting a harddrive ready for use by an operating system!

--David

----- Original Message -----
From: Jonathan Hall
To: discussion@xxxxxxxxx
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 3:31 AM
Subject: [aclug-L] Re: Second or new harddrive in WinXP?



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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