NEW SATA DRIVE RECOGNIZED BUT UNUSABLE?????
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From: The MAN on 4 Jun 2010 02:50 I got a new Samsung HD502HJ, 500Gig SATA harddrive for my HP Compaq d530 CMT, which has a Pentium 4 @ 3GHz. The drive was recognized by the BIOS upon turn-on, but in Windows XP, there was no letter designator for the drive, and it was missing in the windows explorer. I looked in the Device manager, and it's there under the harddrives section. It says that the device is "working properly", but it's clearly not. When i populate the volume, 476937 Megs shows up as the capacity, but the volume is blank, and no partition. So I tried to FDISK it using an old Windows ME start-up floppy disk, but this drive does not appear under the command prompt, so i couldn't format the disk. Can anyone help me? Thanks in advance......
From: Paul on 4 Jun 2010 03:24 The MAN wrote: > I got a new Samsung HD502HJ, 500Gig SATA harddrive for my HP > Compaq d530 CMT, which > has a Pentium 4 @ 3GHz. > > The drive was recognized by the BIOS upon turn-on, but in Windows > XP, there was > no letter designator for the drive, and it was missing in the windows > explorer. I looked in > the Device manager, and it's there under the harddrives section. It > says that the device > is "working properly", but it's clearly not. When i populate the > volume, 476937 Megs shows > up as the capacity, but the volume is blank, and no partition. > > So I tried to FDISK it using an old Windows ME start-up floppy > disk, but this > drive does not appear under the command prompt, so i couldn't format > the disk. > > Can anyone help me? > > Thanks in advance...... You probably need to right-click in the empty space next to the Drive number in Disk Management, and use the pop-up menu to make a new partition. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000 Here, someone has right-clicked on the empty "Disk 0" and will be using the menu to create a new partition. There might even be an opportunity to put a drive letter on it, while setting that up. http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6976/69317438yv7.png The Disk info should say "Basic". You don't want a Dynamic Disk. This picture shows Disk Management with a Dynamic Disk instead of Basic. http://www.pc1news.com/articles-img/original/SP32-20040101-231716.gif Paul
From: The MAN on 4 Jun 2010 06:01
On Jun 4, 12:24 am, Paul <nos...(a)needed.com> wrote: > The MAN wrote: > > I got a new Samsung HD502HJ, 500Gig SATA harddrive for my HP > > Compaq d530 CMT, which > > has a Pentium 4 @ 3GHz. > > > The drive was recognized by the BIOS upon turn-on, but in Windows > > XP, there was > > no letter designator for the drive, and it was missing in the windows > > explorer. I looked in > > the Device manager, and it's there under the harddrives section. It > > says that the device > > is "working properly", but it's clearly not. When i populate the > > volume, 476937 Megs shows > > up as the capacity, but the volume is blank, and no partition. > > > So I tried to FDISK it using an old Windows ME start-up floppy > > disk, but this > > drive does not appear under the command prompt, so i couldn't format > > the disk. > > > Can anyone help me? > > > Thanks in advance...... > > You probably need to right-click in the empty space next > to the Drive number in Disk Management, and use the > pop-up menu to make a new partition. > > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000 > > Here, someone has right-clicked on the empty "Disk 0" and > will be using the menu to create a new partition. There might > even be an opportunity to put a drive letter on it, while > setting that up. > > http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6976/69317438yv7.png > > The Disk info should say "Basic". You don't want a Dynamic Disk. > This picture shows Disk Management with a Dynamic Disk instead > of Basic. > > http://www.pc1news.com/articles-img/original/SP32-20040101-231716.gif > Wow. Perfect! Thanks a million, Paul. You are a life saver!!! It works great. Never used the Disk Management before...... |