There is a big difference between these two PC's

 

1. Install the hard drive, be sure the drive is jumpered "Cable select", connect cables, power and data

2. Go into the bios and be sure the drive is enabled and recognized.

 

3. Boot into windows XP/2000 and go to Control Panel/Administrative tools/Computer Management/Disk Manager   here is where you will create the partition (basic) and format.  Now you will see the drive in Windows Explorer. Now you can create folders and store Data on that drive .

 

To use in a different OS environment you will have to use the Utility software that came with the drive to partition and format.  Buy a Retail Hard drive, it will come with good instructions and a Utility CD.

 

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/opgx240/en/sm/drives.htm#1117019    GX240

 

 

It does not look like there is room for a second drive in the GX1, open the case to see, depends on what version of GX1 you have

 

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/ban_gx1/en/index.htm

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Have you partitioned and formatted the drive?

 

In order for windows XP to recognize the second hard drive, it must be partitioned and formatted.   These are generic instructions for installing an additional hard drive using Windows XP Disk Management, they are by Seagate, but apply to all brands.

http://www.seagate.com/support/kb/disc/howto/install_xp_disk_mgmt.html  

Bev.

 

 

 

 

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You need a Basic Disk.

 

Bev.

 

 

 

 

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Just a matter of preference, Dynamic has some advantages you will never use, 99.9% of people go basic. You can always convert a basic disc to dynamic, at any time,  but once you do, you cannot convert it back to basic...

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The following, is from the Microsoft article already posted,

 

"Dynamic storage is supported in Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional.

A disk initialized for dynamic storage is called a dynamic disk. A dynamic disk contains dynamic volumes, such as simple volumes, spanned volumes, striped volumes, mirrored volumes, and RAID-5 volumes."

 

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http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314343

http://technet2.microsoft.com/WindowsServer/en/library/cc5190f3-aaf5-4189-8f8c-42860e3fd1901033.mspx?mfr=true