OS Recognition of New Hard Drive

Friday, April 21, 2006

For Windows 2000/XP, go to Control Panel and select Administrative Tools. From there, choose Computer Management. On the LEFT pane, select Disk Management. Windows should now give you the option to initialize the disk. Go through the Wizard. Once complete, locate your hard drive in the bottom right pane (it should say Unallocated). Right click on the area that says Unallocated and choose New Partition. Follow the directions of the Windows wizard. Once complete, you should now be able to see the drive in Windows Explorer.

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