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07-31-2008
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| Vista Home Premium x64 | Vista newbie: trying to add a simple storage hard drive I did a clean load of Vista Home Premium x64 yesterday. I built the hardware system with two hard drives, but only had one of them connected when I did the OS load because I wanted to force it to one of them in particular. All went well. Then I simply added the second hard drive, which will be a simple storage drive (and nothing else). The BIOS sees the drive, but Vista does not. Can someone tell me what I must do to get Vista to see this added-on drive? Both it, and the OS-based drive are Seagate 160GB SATA drives...nothing special. I can't figure out why Vista won't see the added drive. This would have been done automatically in XP.... I've heard this Vista learning curve is going to be hell for a while, but I didn't think it would start already. Thank you. |
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07-31-2008
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| | Re: Vista newbie: trying to add a simple storage hard drive Did you format the drive? -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- www.paulsxp.com www.paulsxp.com/forum http://www.supportspace.com/home/aff...s.s2?aiu=paulm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "nofool" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:a70fe09147565d90ea4ec877ab84366f@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > I did a clean load of Vista Home Premium x64 yesterday. I built the > hardware system with two hard drives, but only had one of them connected > when I did the OS load because I wanted to force it to one of them in > particular. All went well. > > Then I simply added the second hard drive, which will be a simple > storage drive (and nothing else). The BIOS sees the drive, but Vista > does not. Can someone tell me what I must do to get Vista to see this > added-on drive? Both it, and the OS-based drive are Seagate 160GB SATA > drives...nothing special. > > I can't figure out why Vista won't see the added drive. This would have > been done automatically in XP.... > > I've heard this Vista learning curve is going to be hell for a while, > but I didn't think it would start already. Thank you. > > > -- > nofool > > *-"Onward, into the fog!" -* > *--- Oat Willie-* |
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07-31-2008
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| Vista Ultimate 32/64 bit | Re: Vista newbie: trying to add a simple storage hard drive If you right click on computer via the start menu and "manage" from the context menu can you see the drive there to format it? |
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07-31-2008
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| Vista Home Premium x64 | Re: Vista newbie: trying to add a simple storage hard drive No, I haven't formatted the drive. I did find the "manage" menu, but then got stuck on whether to choose "MBR" or "GPT". It seems that I must choose one of them. The drive at issue is going to be a simple data storage drive, never containing any partitions or an OS. Thank you! |
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07-31-2008
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| | Re: Vista newbie: trying to add a simple storage hard drive "nofool" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message news:484e4e29d8a7bf4e3eb84a1f4b3a2879@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: > > No, I haven't formatted the drive. I did find the "manage" menu, but > then got stuck on whether to choose "MBR" or "GPT". It seems that I > must choose one of them. The drive at issue is going to be a simple data > storage drive, never containing any partitions or an OS. Thank you! > > > -- > nofool > > *-"Onward, into the fog!" -* > *--- Oat Willie-* Any drive has to contain at least ONE partition.. -- Mike Hall - MVP How to construct a good post.. http://dts-l.com/goodpost.htm How to use the Microsoft Product Support Newsgroups.. http://support.microsoft.com/default...help&style=toc Mike's Window - My Blog.. http://msmvps.com/blogs/mikehall/default.aspx |
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07-31-2008
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| | Re: Vista newbie: trying to add a simple storage hard drive On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:36:37 -0500, nofool <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote: Quote: > >No, I haven't formatted the drive. I did find the "manage" menu, but >then got stuck on whether to choose "MBR" or "GPT". It seems that I >must choose one of them. The drive at issue is going to be a simple data >storage drive, never containing any partitions or an OS. Thank you! |
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08-02-2008
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| | Re: Vista newbie: trying to add a simple storage hard drive "Mike Hall - MVP" <mikehall@xxxxxx_mvps.com> wrote in message news:eKGBYyx8IHA.4140@xxxxxx Quote: > "nofool" <guest@xxxxxx-email.com> wrote in message > news:484e4e29d8a7bf4e3eb84a1f4b3a2879@xxxxxx-gateway.com... Quote: >> >> No, I haven't formatted the drive. I did find the "manage" menu, but >> then got stuck on whether to choose "MBR" or "GPT". It seems that I >> must choose one of them. The drive at issue is going to be a simple data >> storage drive, never containing any partitions or an OS. Thank you! >> > > Any drive has to contain at least ONE partition.. > > > -- > Mike Hall - MVP Jeeeesh, if I knew the answer to his question I would actually try to help and answer it! |
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