Adding a second hard drive

[Timmy_T]

Sorry, me again!

I've just added a 2nd SATA hard drive, but am unsure how to format it. It's all plugged in, but when I look at Disk Manager it hasn't been allocated a drive letter. It's recognised as a disk drive and has a healthy status, but has no file system or volume letter listed.

Could someone possibly advise where I should go from here?

Many Thanks, Tim

 

[Spark123]

It the partition for the whole 2nd hard disk marked as active?

 

[Timmy_T]

Yes, it says it's healthy and active.

If you right click on the drive pane, the only option it gives is to Delete Partition, all other options, including format (which I thought I needed to do), are grayed out. if I select delete partition it gives a warning that it is the active partition on the disk, and all data will be lost.

I haven't partitioned it, didn't know it was partitioned, and have put no data on it, it's supposed to be new!!!

 

[Spark123]

Yeah, if it is being used as a 2nd disk then it should have no data on it, just sounds like one of windows little reminders. I take it the band at the top is black?

Can you post some screen shots? Press PrtScn and paste into Paint, then save the file as a jpeg and upload: //www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=99672

Does this help?: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

 

[Timmy_T]

The bar at the top was initially blue, so I took my heart in my hands and deleted the existing partition. The bar then went black, and it then allowed me to re-partition it, it formatted, and now appears to be working!! Bar is back to blue, and the drive named and available.

Hope I haven't done anything wrong!!!

Thanks for your help, Tim