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Crazy
Location: Erie, PA
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Computer not recognizing hard drive
Hi, guys. My computer used to have 80 gigs of hard drive space. I say "used to" because it no longer recognizes one of the two hard drives in my computer. Last night I reformatted both drives and now it only recognizes one of the two drives so I only have 40 gigs of space. How do I get my computer to recognize the other drive again?
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I'm a family man - I run a family business.
Location: Wilson, NC
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Go into your Administrative Tools from Control Panel.
Computer Management. Storage. Disk Management. Does it show up there? If so, right click on the drive you want to format, and format it in NTFS. Good luck! If it doesn't show up, check your cables, and check BIOS.
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Crazy
Location: Erie, PA
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I'm a family man - I run a family business.
Location: Wilson, NC
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I'm not sure. It should let you format it. The only thing it says, at all, is "Convert to Dynamic Disk?" Are you sure you don't have your system set up in RAID or something?
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Devils Cabana Boy
Location: Central Coast CA
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if ti says unallocated, right click on it and that should give you the format options.
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Adequate
Location: In my angry-dome.
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"Convert to dynamic" appears when you right-click the disk (n) area at the left side. That's not what you want. Right-click on the large area to the right instead.
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I'm a family man - I run a family business.
Location: Wilson, NC
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Yes. Perfect!
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Crazy
Location: Erie, PA
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Adequate
Location: In my angry-dome.
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You could use primary or extended. If you make it extended you'll have to take the next step and allocate logical drives. Not much point unless you have larger plans. Remind me how we got here? I'm trying to understand why you don't already have one big partition.
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Crazy
Location: Erie, PA
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Well, in April, my friend put in another hard drive to double my hard drive space to 80 gigs. So I have two separate hard drives in my computer, each with a 40 gig capacity. When I reformatted the other day, I lost access to a hard drive so I was back to 40 gigs again.
Oh, by the way it worked! Thanks a lot to everyone's feedback. You all were very helpful. |
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