New sata HDD appears in CP but not in My comp...

dchalf10 · *Last edited by dchalf10; 06-30-2011 at 06:25.*

But it's not in My Computer...the bios recognises it and I even swapped cables around to make sure it was in a Slave drive port ( not that it matters as it has no OS on it.... )

How am I supposed to format it or make it viewable/useable. It clearly works...

Is vista being a d!ck or am I?

Surely I don't have to go find my copy of vista just to install a HDD.........I may have even thrown the disk in the bin as I was planning on jumping to win 7...

deltatux · 06-30-2011, 06:31 | posts: 18,762 | Location: Toronto, Canada

Go to Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Disk Management and initialize your hard drive.

deltatux

dchalf10 · 06-30-2011, 06:35 | posts: 4,044

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Originally Posted by deltatux

Go to Control Panel --> Administrative Tools --> Computer Management --> Disk Management and initialize your hard drive.

deltatux

Thanks delta, on my 1000th gooogle search I just found that info and was in the process of formatting it by that exact method. I appreciate your response none the less though.

Cheers.

It's a shame windows doesn't auto initialize it. It's not like it chooses your format type or anything, it would at least have allowed me to view it in my comp.

Here's to faster gaming with the new HDD!

/thread please mods

Thanks again delta.

Vista sucks.....

deltatux · 06-30-2011, 07:25 | posts: 18,762 | Location: Toronto, Canada

Initialization is basically allows you to choose if you want to write MBR or GPT partitions and write the partition tables for the drives. No OS technically does this automatically.

deltatux

thatguy91 · 06-30-2011, 08:33 | posts: 2,745 | Location: Australia

Doing it automatically would lead to complaints about it doing as such!

dchalf10 · 06-30-2011, 11:47 | posts: 4,044

Yay my 9hr long format of my 2TB drive just finished /s

But seriously. I thought the 'quick format' might cause future errors and had no idea it would take this long. I thought it might be 1hr max vs 20 minutes for the quick format and as I install ( and never de-install ) 99% of my games I figured I better do it right...

But 9hrs...now I get to uninstall about 100 games and reinstall them on my other drive.

"Fun Fun Fun !!!!" - Rebecca Black

deltatux · 06-30-2011, 15:59 | posts: 18,762 | Location: Toronto, Canada

I usually just do quick format because that's suppose to be how fast format should take. I have no clue why it took Microsoft until Windows XP to have such format speed.

deltatux

dchalf10 · 07-01-2011, 06:59 | posts: 4,044

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Originally Posted by deltatux

I usually just do quick format because that's suppose to be how fast format should take. I have no clue why it took Microsoft until Windows XP to have such format speed.

deltatux

I wish I had known it was ok to do that because the installation of games which is still ongoing would have been finished yesterday...

Keitosha · 07-01-2011, 12:33 | posts: 4,363 | Location: Omicron Persei Windows 8 Pro WMC

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Originally Posted by deltatux

I usually just do quick format because that's suppose to be how fast format should take. I have no clue why it took Microsoft until Windows XP to have such format speed.

deltatux

You could always quick format in DOS or CMD.
i.e. "Format /q c:\"

Xtreme1979 · *Last edited by Xtreme1979; 07-01-2011 at 20:28.*

NTFS normal just checks for bad sectors as it's formatting. (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302686) Since this drive is new you did the safe thing. Doubt I would have had the patience though. I would have chose quick and then performed a surface scan afterwards once my data was on the drive. Risky but I've been fine so far.

dchalf10 · 07-02-2011, 05:11 | posts: 4,044

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Originally Posted by Xtreme1979

NTFS normal just checks for bad sectors as it's formatting. (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/302686) Since this drive is new you did the safe thing. Doubt I would have had the patience though. I would have chose quick and then performed a surface scan afterwards once my data was on the drive. Risky but I've been fine so far.

Good to hear that it checks for bad sectors because the reason I did the long check was stability checking but I didn't realise just how long it would be.

Re-installing games is really quick when it's from my other HDD...but installing from disk...my god it's slow...nothing to do wit the new HDD of course, just really bad DVD drive speed bottleneck.

I gave up on reinstalling half my games, I wasted 2 days straight reinstalling a whole bunch of games not to mention the 9hr format, from now on I'll install 1 game a day until it's done, I'm sick of sitting in front of the PC :S