Hello all! I thought I should use the collective experience of the community here before I go and break anything. Thanks in advance for any replies, here's the situation:
I decide to add a second HDD to my rather mish mash PC, using a 500GB WD Caviar Black to compliment the ageing 200GB Seagate drive the computer originally came with. The XP home install on the original drive has never been altered, so I was planning to transfer all of my documents to this second hard drive and install another new one to put Windows 7 on in a few months.
I have fitted the drive and it is visible in Device Manager, but not under a drive letter in Explorer. I have gone into Disk Manager, which sometimes claims Disk 0 is "Unreadable". After a few rescans, it shows three sections in Disk 0. The first is the recovery partition D: inserted by Compaq, the second is my main drive C: and the third is "Unallocated". I'm assuming this is the new disk, but it gives a random amount of available storage. The first time it said 704GB, now 918GB. If I right click this section I can bring up the New Partition wizard, but in all the guides I have seen, a new physical disk should appear as Disk 1 below the existing HDD. I don't want to somehow reformat all that I currently have, so thought I should ask here first. Sorry for the wordiness, but I wanted to be clear!
Thanks, Niko =]