Bought a new hard drive... need to get it under my computer

[vanathan760]

i bought a new western digital 80gig 7200 rpm udma 100 hd
after i plugged it in and started the computer my windows xp found it and found that it was a hard drive

i am just trying to get it to where i can use it to store movies, music, ect.

i asked a friend what to do and he said i would have to do something with "fdisk" or something like that, if you need more specs to help me let me know and ill get em for you

i run windows xp professional (SP1)

help would be appreciated thanks
-van

[vanathan760]

some more specs.

Board: ECS K7S5A 1.0
Bus Clock: 66 megahertz
BIOS: American Megatrends Inc. 07.00T 04/02/01

950 megahertz AMD Duron

128 Megabytes Installed Memory

FUJITSU MPB3064ATU E [Hard drive] (6.49 GB) -- drive 0
WDC WD800BB-00CAA1 [Hard drive] (80.02 GB) -- drive 1
(the 80gb is the one im trying to get working)

[Daeymon]

Boot up your computer with the Windows Xp disk in the CD rom. when it says press any key to boot from CD..press a key. Then you want to enter the option that is something like "Advanced troubleshooting, or windows repair tools. Then it will ask you what drive you want to work with, it should provide you with 2 options. 1. C:\Windows, or 2. D: (or whatever the name of your new drive is.) After you select D: you will get a D: command prompt. Then just type FDISK, or Format D:. If you got a new drive and just need to set it up, then after you hit the "press any key to boot from CD key" enter the option that involves setting up a new partition or drive. This will allow you to format the new drive and choose the type of file system you want. If you need more help dont hesitate to ask.

[Emmett]

Hello,

Right click on your "My Computer" icon, select manage, then disk management. You should see a visual of your hard drives. Right click on the representation of your new hard drive. Then partition it, format it (chose NTFS or FAT32-if created partitions less than 32 GB), assign drive letters, done.

There is no reason to use your XP CD and one reason not to - you could shoot yourself in the foot. My way XP makes sure you don't.

Good Luck

[chrisinthesun20]

Emmetts suggestion is by far the easier one if you have installed this as a second HDD (which you have).

I'd select to make more than one partition out of it though, 80gb partitions are NOT fun to manage!