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brixton
09-20-2006, 04:37 PM
I would be grateful for any help here.
I've posted this in this forum as I do not think it's a hardware issue(tho it might)
Story so far
I have a machine running windows XP and office XP
My hard disk is only 10GB so I plugged in another(2GB) for extra storage.
However I have virtually filled both drives up so a friend has given me a 20GB disk which I want to use instead of the 2GB one.
The problem is as follows
I plugged the new disk in and got that reassuring message bottom right of screen "Windows has found a new disk drive"
However it does not appear in "My Computer"
It does however appear in device manager which says it is disk 1 and it is working fine.
Any hints / ideas would be very welcome.

Brixton

Erik
09-20-2006, 05:10 PM
It just needs to be partitioned and formatted.

Right click on My Computer and choose manage. Go to logical disk manager, and find the new unpartioned unallocated space. Right click and choose partiton/format and you should be good to go.