I have a new Vista Ultimate OS and put an Hitachi 320Gig Hard drive in the
extra slot. It shows up in Computer Management disk drives along with the WDC
drive that came with. Populating the drive shows Disk: Disk 1 Type: Dynamic
ond online..If I go to ..Storage and Disk Managment Disk 1 shows up as
unallocated.I tried to format disk 1 /FS:NTFS /V:dorathy to no avail. How do
I get Vista to recongnize this dirve???? thanks in advance...BMR>>>

Hi,

You need to create a volume on the drive before you format it. Run
diskmgmt.msc and right click the unallocated space to begin.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com

"barry//mary" <barrymary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:45D0D894-DF46-49B4-BB14-6775BA119E61@xxxxxx

>I have a new Vista Ultimate OS and put an Hitachi 320Gig Hard drive in the
> extra slot. It shows up in Computer Management disk drives along with the
> WDC
> drive that came with. Populating the drive shows Disk: Disk 1 Type:
> Dynamic
> ond online..If I go to ..Storage and Disk Managment Disk 1 shows up as
> unallocated.I tried to format disk 1 /FS:NTFS /V:dorathy to no avail. How
> do
> I get Vista to recongnize this dirve???? thanks in advance...BMR>>>

"barry//mary" wrote:

> I have a new Vista Ultimate OS and put an Hitachi 320Gig Hard drive in the
> extra slot. It shows up in Computer Management disk drives along with the WDC
> drive that came with. Populating the drive shows Disk: Disk 1 Type: Dynamic
> ond online..If I go to ..Storage and Disk Managment Disk 1 shows up as
> unallocated.I tried to format disk 1 /FS:NTFS /V:dorathy to no avail. How do
> I get Vista to recongnize this dirve???? thanks in advance...BMR>>>

You can also use the utility included in Vista's setup,
Pressing the Advanced button will bring up the following options:
http://www.petri.co.il/images/inst_v...artition_1.gif

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You need to create a volume on the drive before you format it. Run
> diskmgmt.msc and right click the unallocated space to begin.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "barry//mary" <barrymary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:45D0D894-DF46-49B4-BB14-6775BA119E61@xxxxxx

> >I have a new Vista Ultimate OS and put an Hitachi 320Gig Hard drive in the
> > extra slot. It shows up in Computer Management disk drives along with the
> > WDC
> > drive that came with. Populating the drive shows Disk: Disk 1 Type:
> > Dynamic
> > ond online..If I go to ..Storage and Disk Managment Disk 1 shows up as
> > unallocated.I tried to format disk 1 /FS:NTFS /V:dorathy to no avail. How
> > do
> > I get Vista to recongnize this dirve???? thanks in advance...BMR>>>

>
>

Rick....That was the ticket. Been too long since I had to format a disk and
the grey cells had stopped working. Thanks for the help!

"Rick Rogers" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> You need to create a volume on the drive before you format it. Run
> diskmgmt.msc and right click the unallocated space to begin.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
> My thoughts http://rick-mvp.blogspot.com
>
> "barry//mary" <barrymary@xxxxxx> wrote in message
> news:45D0D894-DF46-49B4-BB14-6775BA119E61@xxxxxx

> >I have a new Vista Ultimate OS and put an Hitachi 320Gig Hard drive in the
> > extra slot. It shows up in Computer Management disk drives along with the
> > WDC
> > drive that came with. Populating the drive shows Disk: Disk 1 Type:
> > Dynamic
> > ond online..If I go to ..Storage and Disk Managment Disk 1 shows up as
> > unallocated.I tried to format disk 1 /FS:NTFS /V:dorathy to no avail. How
> > do
> > I get Vista to recongnize this dirve???? thanks in advance...BMR>>>

>
>