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2nd Hard Drive added

I have added a 120GB WD hard drive to a Dell Dimension computer. The drive was recognized through Plug n Play, and is seen in Device Manager. It says "the device is working properly". However, it is not present as a drive in "My computer". Also, putting in a bootable floppy, I do see the drive in FDISK, under "Change Current Fixed Disk Drive". Although, it shows a size of only 49000MB. Any advice would be greatly appreicated.

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jhance

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Luxana

Hallo dmurph88

Are you sure that your bios recognized this HDD properly? Check your bios if it can handle such a big HDD..

Jonybrv

Yes,, Luxana is right. Check with the manufacturer for a 120GB support. Maybe the BIOS is not properly recognizing the hard drive. Also, try using the latest version of fdisk. older version of fdisk that came with Windows 98 may not recognize this hard drive. It is better to use the disk manager that came with the hard drive.

Cheers
Jony

Luxana

Also have a look an HDD jupers. There should by option like from 120GB make just 32GB and see if it works.

jhance

Too bad you "experts" can't read the question:

"The drive was recognized through Plug n Play, and is seen in Device Manager"

dmurph88

ASKER

Thank you all. The first comment from jhance did the trick. (easy on the sarcasm in comment 2, jhance....they are just trying to help)

jhance

It's well deserved sarcasm! In order to be an effective expert you MUST read the question.... It's not useful to lead someone down a proverbial "rathole" chasing things that CANNOT be the solution. If these experts persist in this, they serve only to confuse users rather than help.

The #1 rule for an expert is to read the question and ask for clarification if it is ambiguous...

fardler

Start~Run~diskmgmt.msc
Right click the appropriate drive, select create partition.