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Postby Ravang » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:19 am

I just got a knew 320 gig hard drive and it hooked up to my pc and it does not show up under My Computer but it shows up under Device Manger :-?
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Re: Hard Drives

Postby congo » Mon Jan 01, 2007 10:30 am

Control Panel/Administrative tools/Computer Management/Disk Management.

Go there and initialise the drive, partition it, then Quick format it.

You need SP2.

If you plan on installing windows to it, use default cluster size.
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