New HDD..where is it?

[Irish_PXzyan]

Hey guys.

I finaly have my system up and running..I bought a new Hitachi 320GB 3.5" Internal Hard Drive..I dont know much about it...I just ran into PC world and picked it up.

All I know is:
7200rpm
8mb Buffer
SATA interface

My problem is this:
In the BIOS it picks this HDD up. When I boot to the desktop..all I see is my 160gb HDD there but no Hitachi HDD???

SO..what have I done wrong!!
Also...my brother got it also..its having the same issue

[stordoff]

Is it formatted?

Do this, and see if it is listed there

1. Log on as administrator or as a member of the Administrators group.
2. Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK.
3. In the console tree, click Disk Management. The Disk Management window appears. Your disks and volumes appear in a graphical view and list view.

[Irish_PXzyan]

Hey man.

I knew I had to format...but on boot I was unable to do so..I coudl only format my old HDD.

I shall try again.

[Irish_PXzyan]

Hey man.

hmm..I guess I messed up pretty badly when I was formatting yesterday

I have my 160gb like this:
6gigs (D for partition drive: 143gigs Unallocated

320gb like this:
128gigs (C 170gigs Unallocated.

heh...how on earth have I managed this.....
Anyway...iam formating my old HDD now.....but...is there anyway I can throw the 170gigs into the 128gig partition???

[Matt18]

Originally Posted by Irish_PXzyan

Hey man.

hmm..I guess I messed up pretty badly when I was formatting yesterday

I have my 160gb like this:
6gigs (D for partition drive: 143gigs Unallocated

320gb like this:
128gigs (C 170gigs Unallocated.

heh...how on earth have I managed this.....
Anyway...iam formating my old HDD now.....but...is there anyway I can throw the 170gigs into the 128gig partition???

Go back into computer management, right click on the 128gig drive and select extend volume. Thats it! You can select the remaining unallocated portion of the drive or a smaller portion if you like.

[thoughtdisorder]

Originally Posted by Matt18

Go back into computer management, right click on the 128gig drive and select extend volume. Thats it! You can select the remaining unallocated portion of the drive or a smaller portion if you like.

+1. Matt is correct, that should get ya squared away.....

[Irish_PXzyan]

Thanks alot guys! once again this site proves to be a life savier!!!

[Irish_PXzyan]

Sorry...I have one final question.

My small partition drive " 6gig " is letter D and my 128 is C...I want the 128 to be my...ummm...gosh...you know when you install a new program?? and you have to save it somewhere..it has D onit instead of C...is there a way to change the default so it wont install where WINDOWS is??? thanks.

[trog100]

i dont think so.. most things just default on the windows drive.. u simply have to change this every time u install something if u want it somewhere else..

u cannot change your operating system or C drive to another letter. all the rest u can but not C.. windows wont let u..

your operating system if u only have one should be on C..

u really need to install to the C drive.. what is your windows doing on D.. ?? or have i read u wrong..

trog

[Irish_PXzyan]

I have another question.

1: What is a dynamic Disk?

[Irish_PXzyan]

Originally Posted by trog100

i dont think so.. most things just default on the windows drive.. u simply have to change this every time u install something if u want it somewhere else..

u cannot change your operating system or C drive to another letter. all the rest u can but not C.. windows wont let u..

your operating system if u only have one should be on C..

u really need to install to the C drive.. what is your windows doing on D.. ?? or have i read u wrong..

trog

D Drive is where WINDOWS is installed...I had to make the small partition to install windows on! On my old system...I thought WINDOWS was installed in the small 6gig partition???? was it not?? Have I done something wrong??? then why do you need to make a 6gig partition drive for??

[Matt18]

Originally Posted by Irish_PXzyan

D Drive is where WINDOWS is installed...I had to make the small partition to install windows on! On my old system...I thought WINDOWS was installed in the small 6gig partition???? was it not?? Have I done something wrong??? then why do you need to make a 6gig partition drive for??

Did you already have windows installed or was it a fresh install? If you have 2 copies of windows installed that is why it is showing it on the D drive. That means whatever copy of windows you have installed on the C drive is the one it is booting from.

Does it ask you what you want to boot from when you start windows?

For example, I have vista and XP installed. When the computer starts it asks which version of windows I want to load. Whatever OS I choose becomes the C drive when windows starts.
Does that make sense?

[Irish_PXzyan]

Dont worry man I sorted it out

thanks anyway!

[keakar]

Originally Posted by Irish_PXzyan

Dont worry man I sorted it out

thanks anyway!

well just in case dont forget you can:

Originally Posted by Matt18

Go back into computer management, right click on the 128gig drive and select extend volume. Thats it! You can select the remaining unallocated portion of the drive or a smaller portion if you like.

so if you need the 6 to be 128 and the 128 to be the 6 then resize them instead of trying to rename them. or just ghost an image of windows from d drive to the c drive then reformat d drive to delete that copy of windows.