hard drive problem

[/\/\r.Abdul]

I recently bought a new western digital 80GB 7200rpm ATA100 8MB WD800JB its install windows picks it up so does bios. but it has no drive letter can someone help me and fast because i really need it i only 500meg left on my origanal drive.

i am using windows ME

 

[DaveBurnett]

You need to run FDISK to allocate partitions on it, and then FORMAT it.

 

[/\/\r.Abdul]

um my 31/2 flopy drive aint working is there any way around this

 

[flash777]

do you have one from another comp you could throw in?
can you boot to dos promt with os disk?
do you have a different os?
i've heard bad things about windows me.
is the hd set a slave? if so and you have a os on the other hd you could use a partitioning tool to format the other drive. like partition magic 8.

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp

 

[DaveBurnett]

Try it from the Command Prompt in ME

 

[/\/\r.Abdul]

i got fdisk working threw cpmmand prompt is there any risk doing that and can u give me a guide to do it threw fdisk or a link to learn how to do it.

 

[DaveBurnett]

Try this http://www.perfectdrivers.com/howto/fdisk-format.html

 

[/\/\r.Abdul]

i wasnt able to read that the writing was kinda undistigishuable so i just went to create a dos partition and there was only the C: which i wanna keep