NEW SATA DRIVE RECOGNIZED BUT UNUSABLE?????

[The MAN]

I got a new Samsung HD502HJ, 500Gig SATA harddrive for my HP

Compaq d530 CMT, which

has a Pentium 4 @ 3GHz.



The drive was recognized by the BIOS upon turn-on, but in Windows

XP, there was

no letter designator for the drive, and it was missing in the windows

explorer. I looked in

the Device manager, and it's there under the harddrives section. It

says that the device

is "working properly", but it's clearly not. When i populate the

volume, 476937 Megs shows

up as the capacity, but the volume is blank, and no partition.



So I tried to FDISK it using an old Windows ME start-up floppy

disk, but this

drive does not appear under the command prompt, so i couldn't format

the disk.



Can anyone help me?



Thanks in advance......

 

[Paul]

The MAN wrote:

> I got a new Samsung HD502HJ, 500Gig SATA harddrive for my HP

> Compaq d530 CMT, which

> has a Pentium 4 @ 3GHz.

>

> The drive was recognized by the BIOS upon turn-on, but in Windows

> XP, there was

> no letter designator for the drive, and it was missing in the windows

> explorer. I looked in

> the Device manager, and it's there under the harddrives section. It

> says that the device

> is "working properly", but it's clearly not. When i populate the

> volume, 476937 Megs shows

> up as the capacity, but the volume is blank, and no partition.

>

> So I tried to FDISK it using an old Windows ME start-up floppy

> disk, but this

> drive does not appear under the command prompt, so i couldn't format

> the disk.

>

> Can anyone help me?

>

> Thanks in advance......



You probably need to right-click in the empty space next

to the Drive number in Disk Management, and use the

pop-up menu to make a new partition.



http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000



Here, someone has right-clicked on the empty "Disk 0" and

will be using the menu to create a new partition. There might

even be an opportunity to put a drive letter on it, while

setting that up.



http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6976/69317438yv7.png



The Disk info should say "Basic". You don't want a Dynamic Disk.

This picture shows Disk Management with a Dynamic Disk instead

of Basic.



http://www.pc1news.com/articles-img/original/SP32-20040101-231716.gif



Paul

 

[The MAN]

On Jun 4, 12:24 am, Paul wrote:

> The MAN wrote:

> >     I got a new Samsung HD502HJ,  500Gig SATA harddrive for my HP

> > Compaq d530 CMT, which

> > has a Pentium 4 @ 3GHz.

>

> >     The drive was recognized by the BIOS upon turn-on, but in Windows

> > XP, there was

> > no letter designator for the drive, and it was missing in the windows

> > explorer.  I looked in

> > the Device manager, and it's there under the harddrives section.  It

> > says that the device

> > is "working properly", but it's clearly not.  When i populate the

> > volume, 476937 Megs shows

> > up as the capacity, but the volume is blank, and no partition.

>

> >      So I tried to FDISK it using an old Windows ME start-up floppy

> > disk, but this

> > drive does not appear under the command prompt, so i couldn't format

> > the disk.

>

> >      Can anyone help me?

>

> > Thanks in advance......

>

> You probably need to right-click in the empty space next

> to the Drive number in Disk Management, and use the

> pop-up menu to make a new partition.

>

> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

>

> Here, someone has right-clicked on the empty "Disk 0" and

> will be using the menu to create a new partition. There might

> even be an opportunity to put a drive letter on it, while

> setting that up.

>

> http://img165.imageshack.us/img165/6976/69317438yv7.png

>

> The Disk info should say "Basic". You don't want a Dynamic Disk.

> This picture shows Disk Management with a Dynamic Disk instead

> of Basic.

>

> http://www.pc1news.com/articles-img/original/SP32-20040101-231716.gif

>



Wow. Perfect! Thanks a million, Paul. You are a life

saver!!!



It works great. Never used the Disk Management before......