magic90 Posted September 24, 2001 Share Posted September 24, 2001 I have just installed a new 40 gig hdd. When I go to the device manager it's there and working ok.BUt how do I format it so win xp will recognise it.I have partition magic but it wont work with win xpAny help would be most appreciated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aMb Posted September 24, 2001 Share Posted September 24, 2001 Well you shouldnt need to format, as they come preformatted. So it shows up under the Device Mananger, but not under My Computer as a drive?Perhaps you do need to format it, Partition Magic 7 works with XP, although personally I would use FDISK in DOS.aMb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic90 Posted September 24, 2001 Author Share Posted September 24, 2001 I used a win98 boot disk and then used fdisk to format drive.And then used partition magic 7 (V6 dosent work with xp) to partition the drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harley Posted September 26, 2001 Share Posted September 26, 2001 Why can't you partition it with FDISK? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magic90 Posted September 26, 2001 Author Share Posted September 26, 2001 Yea I know you can partition with fdisk but was unsure how to use it.Everything is so simple with partition magicAnyway everything done now.thanx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war_child Posted September 27, 2001 Share Posted September 27, 2001 use disk admin that is in windows XP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aMb Posted September 27, 2001 Share Posted September 27, 2001 What is disk admin?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FthrJACK Posted September 27, 2001 Share Posted September 27, 2001 yeah war child.. go on xp[/color:0549d3fc3b]lain more im interested too!! Sounds good, theres a few features in XP ive still not tried out, but id not even heard of this one!and yes, a drive has to be formated and have at least one partition on it before you can use it, otherwise it just shows up in device manager and not in my computer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LouCypher Posted September 28, 2001 Share Posted September 28, 2001 right click "My Computer" -> "Manage""Computer Management" pops up, pick "Storage" -> "Disk Management"There it is. It's almost like Partition Magic it's so easy.(See attached) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
war_child Posted September 28, 2001 Share Posted September 28, 2001 that's it have a good one it's all GUI interface so it's easy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XPerties Posted September 28, 2001 Share Posted September 28, 2001 holly s***...and I was worry about getting partitionmagic 7...dam, works great....Hey anyone want to buy a new program called Pertitionmagic 7....real cheep!:spaced -Chris Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick Posted September 28, 2001 Share Posted September 28, 2001 Geez! Had no idea that was there...looks just like Partition Magic! Good eye on that one.Rick:eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest aMb Posted September 28, 2001 Share Posted September 28, 2001 Wow, never knew that too! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LouCypher Posted September 28, 2001 Share Posted September 28, 2001 That's been there since at least Windows NT 4.0.. Maybe not in the MMC interface, I think it was rdisk or something before. Same look though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aaron Posted September 28, 2001 Share Posted September 28, 2001 It may be a nice useful inbuilt disk management program, but it is [b:7a4897ea7d]very very[/b:7a4897ea7d] limited as to what it can do. Partition Magic 7 r00lz all the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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