Format second hard drive

[boldego]

I'm going to put in a second hard drive and was wondering if XP will recognized it and ask to format it or what I will need to do.

[Two2Tango]

If you stick with a major manufacture like Western Digital or Maxtor they came with formating software (recommended you use it) thats easy to follow and install.

[elmolicious]

Formatting software ?

Yeah ?

Just bang it on a spare IDE boot up XP, right click on My Computer, select manage, click Disk Management, find your new drive, make any partitions u want & format them.

[mcubed91]

1)Click on: START+Help and Support
2)Search field, type: to detect new disks
3)follow the instructions...

[Popee]

If you are installing a new Hard drive you may want to consider formatting it to NTFS specs as opposed to FAT 32. NTFS will allow you to have file sizes larger than 4 GBytes.

If you only have XP and have never upgraded from a previous version of Windows on your PC, then this probably does not apply to you, since the native XP drive format is NTFS.

[boldego]

Thanks everyone !!! I'll be picking it up today and installing it.

[Gazorgan]

Tip: Don't install a fast/new 7200 RPM dive on the same cable as a CDROM drive. CDROM/CDRW's may not be UDMA, thus it may force your drive to slow PIO mode. Faster CDRW's and some DVD drives will do UDMA 66.