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Old 17-Apr-2007, 03:43 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Question: Hello, I am running windows XP Home with master drive as C drive & I have just installed a new Western digital 80GB drive on the slave cable.
In BIOS my pc sees both the drives as old, original drive as master location 0(0) & new drive as slave. 1(1)

However when i boot up the drive is unallocated & not initalized in Windows XP HOME Drive Computer Management. I cannot use the Windows XP Home Computer Management program from control panel I cannot partition the new drive it is not highlighted.

I have my original XP HOME Operating disk but it has SP1A & I am on SP2 so i cannot get into setup from the xp disk wont accept setup?
I want to make the new drive with 2 partitions- SPLIT 40GB + 40GB as logical drives with a new drive letters e.g G drive & H drive in My Computer on C drive, how do I do this?

I have used Partition magic 8.0 in the past but i had config. problems with it.
I cannot use FDISK on XP home i tried diskpart but none of the functions did anything?

Please advise what utility can i use to get to the slave 1(1) new 80GB drive partition it into 2 logical drives in My Computer in my system C drive?
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Are your jumpers correctly set on the new HD? You should also use the Western Digital software to prepare the drive. If it did not come with the drive itself, you can find it from their support downloads:

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