Hard Drive

[Winvin]

My Bios Detects the hard drive but Microsoft Windows XP will not. I've even tried the Western Digital Software in MSDOS and it detected it fine. I even formated through MSDOS. I've tried it on 2 pc's. It's not the jumpers by the way. It use to work until I used an external enclosure.

 

[Freestone]

Does Disk Management see it?

Start, Run, diskmgmt.msc

 

[Winvin]

I know windows xp won't see it but I haven't tried dsk man.

 

[wahnula]

It use to work until I used an external enclosure.

So is this now a USB/Firewire/External SATA drive? How is it connected to the PC?

Tony

 

[Winvin]

It does szee it but it said unallocated. It still won't show up in windows.

 

[wahnula]

Right-click the box that says 'unallocated' and one of your options should be 'format'. If the 'Convert Disk' Wizard pops up click through it. You're almost there.

Tony

 

[Freestone]

Explorer isn't seeing the drive since it isn't formatted, or at least formatted in a way Windows recognizes. As wahnula stated, right-click on tthe unallocated partition to start the formatting process. I highly suggest NOT creating a dynamic disk if prompted to do.

 

[Winvin]

Ok. Thank you so much. It works. Yay. You saved me $80.

 

[wahnula]

Congratulations, you just graduated from HardDisk101. If you are happy with your post results a star ("Thank username for this valuable post")is always appreciated (pimp that I am!). Glad you got it sorted out.

Tony