Paul,
"My computer" does recognise the disc as the F drive - right click and I
have the opportunity to format - the format box opens and suggests that it
will partition in NTFS but then tells me (when I click to start) that
Windows cannot format this drive. I had this same problem on a previous
occasion when I tried to connect an external Lacie drive - which I laterly
decided to connect to a Mac which was completely successful.
I am wondering if any disc utilities/or any other program may prevent
formatting - but if this is the case i don't know which program this/these
are.
regards
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul A. Shippert" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:02 AM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Moving Hard drives around
> Greetings Richard--
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Richard Stevens" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2006 1:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] Moving Hard drives around
>
>
>> Hi Paul,
>>
>> I will check this out - and thank you for your full and helpful comments.
>>
>> Added notes; At the moment the OS system recognises that there is another
>> drive present (it is listed as an F drive), and the disk management
>> recognises that it is healthy (and active) and has a capacity of
>> 186.31GB, and the device manager says that the device is working
>> properly. I believe that I have set up the device as a slave unit (with
>> the jump connectors) and it is located in the correct hard disc bay. BUT
>> it will not format, F:/ is not accessible if you try to open it, and disk
>> management makes no statement about partitioning (NTFS).
>>
>> Will recognition in BIOS be the answer??
> -----------end original----------------
> I suspect not. If the OS's disk management utility displays the drive as
> you have
> indicated, then the BIOS appears to have already recognized it and made it
> available
> to the operating system. Does the drive (F:\) appear when you open "My
> Computer"?
> If so, try right-clicking on it, and see if the option to format it is in
> the context menu.
> If it is, left click on it. (From your description, however, it seems to
> already be
> partitioned, and I'm at a loss as to why, in disk management, it does not
> show whether
> it is FAT32 or NTFS. That info should be in the first line, fourth column
> [File system].)
>
> Good luck and HTH.
>
> Paul A. Shippert
> Utilitarian
> Margaret Brent Middle School
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