2nd SATA Drive?...yes, its me again!

Public Technical problems / FAQ
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Hi,

Just while i’m busting PC’s i thought i’d buy a 2nd smaller SATA drive

I currently have 3 HDD on my PC.
IDE 160GB Hitachi —For XP and everything else
SATA 320GB Maxtor —for photo’s and other precious things
NEW SATA 80GB Hitach —for either backup of photo’s, Linux or both (haven’t decided yet)

The PC appears to see the 80Gb Sata in Bios, in Device manager, but Explorer does not see it? My CD-Rom has no Raid drivers on it as it’s a fairly recent Board ans it says XP does not need em.

My Bios will not let me configure anything on the HDD and there are no jumpers on the HDD either.

I feel this might be an easy one…?

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Start>Run diskmgmt.msc

Select the 80 gb drive in the list, right click, select New partition, follow the dialogue

Sporran

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