2nd Hard drive problems

[PETERG]

Hi,
you can try this:

1. Go to Control panel
2. Go to Administrative tools
3. Go to Computer management
4. Go to Disk management
5. Delete all partitions that you have on your new disk
6. Create new partition on new disk
7. Format this new partition using NTFS file system

There are no partitions on the new disc

[shady77]

try this
Go to Start > Run, type diskmgmt.msc and press Enter. In the left column of the Graphical View where it states the Disk number, right-click the device > Properties > Policies Tab. Put a check mark in "Optimize for performance" and “Enable write…..”.

[dasteph]

this may sound a silly question but are they both pata drives set on the same ide channel on your pc 1 as master the 2 as slave because i cant understand why its asking you to insert disc when in hd managment and you try to format the drive, again a silly question its not showing as a removable disc drive is it ?

going back to my question about it being on the same ide channel you have to connect them both with the same cable, there should a plug part way along the cable that your origonal hd uses this gives you the master and slave set up if not you need to get hold of another cable.
you say it shows as a removable disc this sounds as if you have put on you ide channel with your cd rom.

[PETERG]

Not to sure how, but it's finally done, had to have jumpers on both hard drives on cable select, don't know if this is specific to HP, logged on as admin, went through to disk management, scan for disks, created a partition & then formatted. What a right royal pain in the arse????????????????

BIG THANKS TO EVERYONE FOR THERE HELP

[shady77]

well we live and learn and learn to live eh mate? glad you got it sorted. I think thats one of the joys of computers, getting in, trying things and seeing if they work