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    Second hard drive not showing up

    Discussion in 'Gateway and eMachines' started by Jakamo5, Aug 18, 2008.

  1. Jakamo5

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    this is on the 7811

    I'm going to sound like such a noob here but I can't figure this out...

    My second hard drive that I just installed shows up in bios, shows up in vista device manager as "working properly", but doesn't show up under "my computer". I only see the first drive, which has been partitioned into OS and Data, but those are the only two drives besides the DVD/CD drive that I see. Is this a vista thing? I've never used vista before.
     
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    Is it recognized in the BIOS?
     
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    yes it is .
     
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    hmmmm have you formatted it in the adminstrative tools? I think where you defrag it, there is an option to format, or patition the space....have a look see.
     
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    haven't done that. would make sense, thanks i'll give it a try
     
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    no problem, lemme know if it works
     
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    you were correct. had to go to administrative tools > computer management > storage > disk management > right click the drive which was marked "not initialized" and click "initialize drive" > right click again and select "create new simple volume" > go through the wizard and set a drive letter and format it

    now it shows up +rep
     
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    no problem, it had to be something small if it showed up in the BIOS.
     
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    Quick question sorta on topic: can I merge the three (just saw the third) partitions of the first hard disk? Is there any advantage to them being partitioned? Lastly, why is one of the partitions 10GB and it doesn't show up under my computer?
     
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    I'm guessing if you merge them the Gateway restore function will not work, if that is important. The 10GB must be hidden and must contain the restore image.
     
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    It is for a Vista recovery backup, incase your laptop fails , etc i think, its for "system restore" per say. I do not know the answer to the partitioned quesiton though.
     
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    If I have the oem cd, do I really need it?
     
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    I deleted mine, if you really need the space I guess you could get rid of it. But considering you have two hard drives and im assuming over 500GB of space, I would keep it.
     
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