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by: Bud_Page May 30, 2012 1:45 PM PDT

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Second Hard drive not recognized in My Computer

by Bud_Page - 5/30/12 1:45 PM

I installed a second hard drive in a
Dell Demension e521with a windows XP operating system. I followed the instructions for setup on the Dell site. The drive is showing up in the hardware manager but is not showing in My Computer. Any recomendations?


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Clarification request: By hardware Manager, do you mean

by MarkFlax Moderator - 5/30/12 2:17 PM

In Reply to: Second Hard drive not recognized in My Computer by Bud_Page

Disk Management?

If not, try that first. Control Panel > Administrative Tools > Disk Management. See if the drive is listed there and if so what state it is reported as.

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by Bud_Page - 5/31/12 11:07 AM

In Reply to: By hardware Manager, do you mean by MarkFlax Moderator

Hi Mark, I appreciate your follow up.
I really meant device manager. I did follow up on Disk management and the disk reads: Satus: Healthy unknow partition: and below says, Disk 1Unallocated.

Thank you. Bud


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In that case

by MarkFlax Moderator - 5/31/12 12:25 PM

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In Disk Management right click that hard drive and see what options there are.

You should be able to "Create a new volume" then format it. Then it should be seen in Windows Explorer, (My Computer).

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by Bud_Page - 6/1/12 5:25 AM

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Mark I followed you instruction, formatted the disk and everything is working great. Thank you so much for you help. Bud


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by MarkFlax Moderator - 6/1/12 5:36 AM

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Glad it worked for you, and thanks for letting us know.

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