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| XP - new hard drive in USB enclosure I've put a new hard drive in my USB drive enclosure and don't have a clue how to make XP machine find and use it. In my old Win98 machine, I could FDISK one, but there's no FDISK on XP. Can someone please tell me how to make this a useable drive? thx . . .      |
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| Re: XP - new hard drive in USB enclosure Never mind. I dug around and found compmgmt.msc. frank062547@excite.com (Frank) wrote in message news:<64680c7f.0409110710.5fc79084@posting.google. com>... > I've put a new hard drive in my USB drive enclosure and don't have a > clue how to make XP machine find and use it. In my old Win98 machine, > I could FDISK one, but there's no FDISK on XP. > > Can someone please tell me how to make this a useable drive? > > thx . . . |
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| Re: XP - new hard drive in USB enclosure Never mind. I dug around and found compmgmt.msc. frank062547@excite.com (Frank) wrote in message news:<64680c7f.0409110710.5fc79084@posting.google. com>... > I've put a new hard drive in my USB drive enclosure and don't have a > clue how to make XP machine find and use it. In my old Win98 machine, > I could FDISK one, but there's no FDISK on XP. > > Can someone please tell me how to make this a useable drive? > > thx . . . |
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02-06-2007, 05:25 PM
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| Re: XP - new hard drive in USB enclosure Use your Win 98 pc to create a boot disk That should allow your to get to dos in XP & do an FDISK or use The Recovery Console that's on the XP cd to do a Disk Part. Disk Part is same as doing an FDISK. JG "Frank" <frank062547@excite.com> wrote in message news:64680c7f.0409110710.5fc79084@posting.google.c om... > I've put a new hard drive in my USB drive enclosure and don't have a > clue how to make XP machine find and use it. In my old Win98 machine, > I could FDISK one, but there's no FDISK on XP. > > Can someone please tell me how to make this a useable drive? > > thx . . . |
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| Re: XP - new hard drive in USB enclosure Use your Win 98 pc to create a boot disk That should allow your to get to dos in XP & do an FDISK or use The Recovery Console that's on the XP cd to do a Disk Part. Disk Part is same as doing an FDISK. JG "Frank" <frank062547@excite.com> wrote in message news:64680c7f.0409110710.5fc79084@posting.google.c om... > I've put a new hard drive in my USB drive enclosure and don't have a > clue how to make XP machine find and use it. In my old Win98 machine, > I could FDISK one, but there's no FDISK on XP. > > Can someone please tell me how to make this a useable drive? > > thx . . . |
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