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Installing new HD in my m9700?

post #1 of 4
3/21/08 at 11:23pm
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Well, I made a trip into microcenter today and purchased for myself a new WD 320GB hard drive. (Wooo!) Got home, opened up drive bay 2 and slapped it in there. Booted the lappy, and opened up Control panel/Add new hardware. It said that the new drive was installed and working properly. However, when I go into My Computer, It does not appear to be installed. (Or I'm just an idiot, and have done something wrong.) I have never had to install a HD in a laptop before, so please don't be too harsh.

Any help?
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post #2 of 4
3/21/08 at 11:46pm
Control Panel > Adminstrative tools > Computer Management > Disk Management

Now find the new disk (will probably had a "do-not-enter" styled symbol next to it.

Right click where it says "Disc 2" and then click initialize. Now the colored bar should appear black and say "unallocated space". Right click on the bar and go to format. Follow the prompts and you should be all set. You can set different sizes if you want to create multiple partitions.

Hope this gets ya fixed up.
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post #3 of 4
3/22/08 at 12:02am
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Yeah... I found it like two seconds after I posted that. I right clicked My Computer on the dock bar, and selected Manage. Then I went to Disk Management. It's churning away now. Thanks for the help though.
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post #4 of 4
3/26/08 at 11:24am
Ah, I did not know that!
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