You probably just have to format it. Right click Computer and select manage. Then in the left window pane click on Disk Managment. You should see all the HDDs in the right window pane. Move down to the "unpartitioned" (which should be the 1Tb drive you just installed) hdd and right click to select "New partition".

See if that works for you.

Happy Holidays!

 

Reformat your hard drive and you'll be in business!

 

Try this... Right click on My computer, and hit manage. Go down to disk management, and it should be there. Right click on the disk, and format it to NTFS. Chances are once it gets formatted correctly it'll be available in My computer as a usable drive. Also, Make sure it is connected properly... 1 power cable, either molex or SATA, with a SATA cable. Obvious I know, but make sure the connections are tight.

edit: I guess I type slow, haha..

 

His computer says its not there.

 

Does the drive appear in the partition manager?

 

its a tiger direct drive OEM and not formatted or anything

 

whats happening is the hard drive needs a partition in order for vista to see it. its there, just needs a partition for you to format it.

you need to get a partition program so you can make a one on the drive. oh, i didnt know that vista had a partition program with it or the option to make one. i was going to suggest Partition Magic 8.0, which is what i use all the time. hope you get it working.

Happy Holidays

 

He is going to put Vista 64 on the new drive anyway so hes doing backup and will reinstall and let Vista do the partician in the install phase thanks guys.

MERRY CHRISTMAS

 

When he installs Windows the drive will be listed, as said the reason why Windows did not 'see' the drive is as it had no partitioning so it was unformatted so Windows was not able read/write to it.

 

Go to the partition manager in vista (right click my computer and click manage, look for disk manager) and then format it through there. It should see it there. XP has the same option as well.

 

yea... he had grub loader with dual boot vista and linix so it was really a tough one.

 

Thanks guys problem solved. OC.NET member are the Greatest.

 

yeah, just for future reference, you have to right click on "My Computer"

and then click on manage. Then when the "Computer Manager" screen pops up,

you click on "Disk Management" and when that loads, if it is a brand new drive it will ask you to initialize. If not, then you will get a screen like this:

oh, and the problem wasn't that it wasn't formatted or linux/grub was installed, it was that the drive (being brand new whether it be OEM or Retail) had no MBR or partitions on it. It needed to be "initialized" (which is what windows calls it) for it to be of any use. The same would have needed to be done within linux using the "fdisk" command or gparted.

and from there you can change drive letters, format, shrink, expand, create, delete, etc. Good luck!

 

as for it being a tiger direct oem drive, it has nothing to do with the way its working. the only problem you have is that the drive does have a partition on it for windows to read the drive in my computer.

like i said, get a partition program and that should show the drive in the program and then you can make a partition and even format it if you want it too. main thing you need is a partition on the drive.

heres a link to Acronis Disk Manager Software. its a trial verison, but i think it might work for you.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../diskdirector/

again hope this works

 

Yeah what stumped said. Also, an easier way to format, IMO, is to use the WD Drive Diagnostics utility. DL it from WD's site and burn it to an ISO.

 

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Originally Posted by Lunchbox21984 as for it being a tiger direct oem drive, it has nothing to do with the way its working. the only problem you have is that the drive does have a partition on it for windows to read the drive in my computer. like i said, get a partition program and that should show the drive in the program and then you can make a partition and even format it if you want it too. main thing you need is a partition on the drive. heres a link to Acronis Disk Manager Software. its a trial verison, but i think it might work for you. http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../diskdirector/ again hope this works

Please don't post if you don't know. This has NOTHING to do with it not being partitioned. You don't need to partition a drive for windows. Nor any operating system, (well, maybe sometimes linux for swap) it just needed to be formatted

 

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Originally Posted by wierdo124 Please don't post if you don't know. This has NOTHING to do with it not being partitioned. You don't need to partition a drive for windows. Nor any operating system, (well, maybe sometimes linux for swap) it just needed to be formatted

wth are you smoking?!?!?!?! this has everything with the drive needing to be partitioned. The reason windows doesn't see the drive is because A) there is no partition on it (who here has bought a hdd from a store and had it come with a partition) and B) it had no mbr on it. So before you go saying that this has nothing to do with partitions, i suggest you get your facts straight before criticizing someone else who had it right.

and you have to have a partition first and foremost before you can format anything.

 

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Originally Posted by stumped wth are you smoking?!?!?!?! this has everything with the drive needing to be partitioned. The reason windows doesn't see the drive is because A) there is no partition on it (who here has bought a hdd from a store and had it come with a partition) and B) it had no mbr on it. So before you go saying that this has nothing to do with partitions, i suggest you get your facts straight before criticizing someone else who had it right. and you have to have a partition first and foremost before you can format anything.

seonded lol

 

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Originally Posted by stumped wth are you smoking?!?!?!?! this has everything with the drive needing to be partitioned. The reason windows doesn't see the drive is because A) there is no partition on it (who here has bought a hdd from a store and had it come with a partition) and B) it had no mbr on it. So before you go saying that this has nothing to do with partitions, i suggest you get your facts straight before criticizing someone else who had it right. and you have to have a partition first and foremost before you can format anything.

I realize that. What i'm saying is that you don't need to partition it BEFORE you go to install Windows. Windows installation will do that itself. So before you go flaming someone who has it right, check what he means by it.

 

yeah weirdo, but you never stated that you don't need to partition if you're going to install windows. Had you stated that, it would have been correct. But even still, you need to partition before you format (you can't format nothing) Anything that needs to be formatted needs to have a partition first.

 

ignore lol

 

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Originally Posted by stumped yeah weirdo, but you never stated that you don't need to partition if you're going to install windows. Had you stated that, it would have been correct. But even still, you need to partition before you format (you can't format nothing) Anything that needs to be formatted needs to have a partition first.

I assumed that would be understood, my bad.

i've never had to partition a drive before fomatting it. I have bought two OEM drives (one 2500KS and one 5000AAKS) and both formatted easily by plugging them in, booting Vista install disc, and installing...no partitioning done

 

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Originally Posted by LaoFX but clearly, he already has windows and hes trying to add on the hard drive. get your facts straight man. read the OP

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My son got a Seagate terabyte hard drive.... bios sees the HDDIDs and then Vista 64 doesn't see it with my computer command

I believe you're the one wrong there. He is trying to reinstall windows on THE NEW HDD HE GOT.

 

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Originally Posted by wierdo124 I believe you're the one wrong there. He is trying to reinstall windows on THE NEW HDD HE GOT.

woops. lol. sorry i dont got my glasses on

 

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Originally Posted by LaoFX woops. lol. sorry i dont got my glasses on

Need i remind you of your own quote?

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get your facts straight man. read the OP