format hard drive
 

how do i format a hrd drive that isnt recoginzed by windows?
when i connect it and turn my pc on, it sais new hard ware found, but wont install, and when i go to device manager it comes up and sais its working fine
but in "My Computer" it dont show anything
i cant do it in command prompt, causei dont know the drive letter cause there isnt one

nice avatar!!! sorry lol, but good luck!

There's a variety of ways. I'm pretty sure you can use DOS's format tool to do it. You can use something like Partition Magic or Paragon Hard Disk Manager, or you could pop in your windows install CD, have it format the drive then restart the comp after it formats but before it starts copying install files.

Lich has pretty much summed it up.

If you prefer to do everything visually, or if you don't really know how to partition and format hard drives, i suggest you use PartitionMagic (I don't own that software) or Paragon Partition Manager (I used to use this all the time until i found that Linux liveCDs have tools for the job).

If you want to use a linux liveCD, you can can use fdisk to format and parition the harddrive, then use one of the numerous tools to give it a filesystem. For example, if you wanted to make it FAT32, you could use mkdosfs, or for somehtign liek ReiserFS you could use mkreiserfs.

Does windows support anything like Reiser yet?> I Haven't even looked into that stuff in a couple of years

Do you have a boot disc? It can be windows 98, 2000, If you have one let me know then I can help

Lich, i beleive there are 3rd party tools to let windows read from and write to Reiser and others.

Have you set a partition on the disk yet? You won't be able to format it until you do so.And since you mention that it shows up in "My Computer", can I assume that it is a secondary disk? Is it eventually meant to be the primary drive?

Since you didn't mention what your OS was, here is a reference from Microsoft for XP:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=313348 Just ignore the intro stuff if you are not formatting a primary partition, otherwise the rest of the instructions are the same.

This is another helpful, all encompassing tut:
http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tuto...torial116.html

Well... he did:


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http://p-nand-q.com/download/rfstool.html
http://yareg.akucom.de/index.html
http://www.fs-driver.org/

That covers ReiserFS and Ext2/3, I haven't seen anything for stuff like UFS yet.