I have all the jumpers in the correct places and can find the drive in the device manager. When I troubleshoot it says that the device is working properly but it won't show up in "my computer." What is wrong??
2006-10-18 13:10:10 · 7 answers · asked by mrknositall 6 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Desktops
How can you allocate the drive when you have no access to it?
2006-10-18 13:14:17 · update #1
Yes. XP will format partition but only if you have access to the drive. The drive is not shown in "My Computer". It shows up in the device manager. The PC knows it's there. but not in "My Computer."
2006-10-18 13:22:59 · update #2
THANK YOU JORDAN!!!!!! It worked. I wish I could give you a thousand points!!!
2006-10-18 13:33:35 · update #3
You have to format your new drive. The program i recommend is Data lifeguard tools. It comes with most western digital drives. You can also get it for free from there webpage www.westerndigital.com
it should be under support. It will scan for new drives and ask if you want to format them. It is a lot faster than the default windows formating. It may give you an error basically saying that you get no tech support from them if you don't have a western digital drive but the program works fine.
2006-10-18 13:21:02 · answer #1 · answered by Jordan Z 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
What brand of drive is it? You may need to use the manufacturers drive utility to set it up so that win xp recognizes... If the drive isn't partitioned properly windows will not see it.
2006-10-18 13:23:49 · answer #2 · answered by Fremen 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. Your new not common rigidity won't be formatted and the working gadget won't be detecting it. If the gadget is finding out on up the rigidity, it may be seen interior the direction of the BIOS. no count if it quite is, yet you cant see it once you're on your working gadget, attempt utilising PARTITION MAGIC. that could desire to know any rigidity and format it utilising the right record shape. If the rigidity isn't recognized by using BIOS, then your settings are incorrect someplace.
2016-11-23 18:36:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
insert windows disk, boot from cd, then when it asks which partion you want to use ,use the new drive goahead and install windows on that drive. format using ntfs. then when done go to my computer and format the drive using ntfs. its a long process but is free and no software to dl
2006-10-18 13:23:46 · answer #4 · answered by curtis b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if im not mistaken, restart ur computer and get into the bios system. try to look at the hard drives tab, and check if ur hard drive is there. if not try to put it on.
2006-10-18 13:19:51 · answer #5 · answered by Jack 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that u have a new hdd that its not formated yet .Use this http://www.paragon-software.com/demo.htm to create and format partitions
Regards ChaoSs
2006-10-18 13:19:20 · answer #6 · answered by ChaoSs 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
did you allocate the new drive?
2006-10-18 13:13:25 · answer #7 · answered by bootstrap 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋