stand farther from me, ye gnarred:
> On Sat, 05 Sep 2009 01:16:11 -0500, Sarah Austin
> <> wrote:
>
>> Am I losing my marbles? ( dont answer that 🙂
>>
>> I havent done this in so many years…
>>
>> I dug around per your suggestions here and found another EIDE plug
>> tray for the front of my old PC, and a 40gb WD400BB in a drawer,
>> still sealed in the static bag.
>>
>> So cool, I can use it to backup my data before getting the newer
>> computer.
>>
>> So I mounted it in the tray, plugged it in, turned on the power key,
>> booted the PC again and went into bios setup. Fine, it shows up as
>> the slave on the primary IDE channel. Cool.
>>
>> Then I start XP and it’s not showing up there.
>>
>> Needs formatting? Initialization? Something like that?
>>
>> So I go to WD’s site and look to see if they have a little utility I
>> can DL for that. Nope.
>>
>> Am I losing my brain? 🙂
>
> Boot from the Windows XP install CD. Follow the prompts to install XP
> until you get to the partitioning screen. Delete any partition on the
> new drive then create a partition. Boot Windows from the hard drive
> and you should be able to see and format the drive.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHH! For crying out loud. Bullis II.
> ==============
> Barry
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