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Old 02-06-2007, 05:22 PM
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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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Old 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
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> 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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