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Need help adding a second hard drive to my E520
I have installed a second hard drive into my Dimension E520. My original hard drive is an 80GB SATA I have added a Samsung 320GB SATA hard drive from Dell. I want to run the second hard drive as the slave. I attached the power cable and a SATA cable. After installing the second hard drive, I turned on the SATA port in my set up utility and the hard drive is recognized in my Device Manager and shows it is working properly, but it is not listed as one of my drives i.e. c: or d:
Any suggestions?
shesagordie
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February 21st, 2009 15:00
cb1112
HOW to partition and format a secondary Hard Drive With Windows XP disk management.
Bev.
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February 21st, 2009 14:00
cb1112
Have you partitioned and formatted the second hard drive using Disk Management?
Bev.
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February 21st, 2009 15:00
Hi Bev, No I have not done that, would you be able to give me quick explanation of how to do that. Thanks, CB
shesagordie
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Hi, cb1112
Do you have XP, or Vista?
Bev.
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February 21st, 2009 15:00
It is working now, thanks Bev.
CB
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February 21st, 2009 15:00
I have XP. I have found the disk management utility. I see my new hard is listed, now what?
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February 21st, 2009 15:00
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February 21st, 2009 15:00
Hello cb1112, Have you partioned and formatted the drive?
If not, it might not be recogonized.
Hope this helps.
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February 21st, 2009 16:00
cb1112
Pleased to hear that the problem is resolved. :emotion-1:
Bev.