When a hard disk manufacturer ships a hard disk out, it doesn't know what kind of computer method it is going to finish up in, so it ships them in a raw, unprepared state.
When you add a brand spanking new hard disk drive to your computer (covered in part), the operating method you use (Windows, Linux, Unix etc.) prepares the disk for use with the correct file method, (FAT32, NTFS, ext3, ReiserFS etc.). For the most part they are all incompatible between OS platforms which are why manufacturers send them out unprepared.
Preparing a Hard Disk for Use in Windows XP is called formatting - where the sectors on the hard disk are arranged in the right way for your OS to read & write knowledge from & to it.
Hard disks may even be split in to individual sections called partitions - each of which can be seen by the OS as a separate disk drive, each with it is own drive letter & individually formatted.
So, to be able to make use of your newly installed hard disk, you need to first generate or more partitions on it & then format each of them.
This is a lot simpler than you might think & in Windows, Microsoft have provided a pleasant simple to make use of program to do the job quickly & fundamentally - the Computer Management utility.
Note: The following procedure is assuming you have installed a brand spanking new disk drive. However, the method may even be used as a last resort with older drives that are beginning to become problematic as it can often breathe new life in to a dying drive. More on this at the finish of the article.
Computer Management
Open up the Control Panel & locate the Administrative Tools icon. Click time on it to open it up. Click time on the Computer Management icon & when the window opens, click on Disk Management near the bottom on the left side. Click time on the window's title bar at the top to make it full screen.
This will show you all the drives that Windows can see. Hard Disk Drives (internal & outside) appear at the top & CD/DVD-ROMS appear at the bottom of the list. Space on each drive is represented by a box running across the screen. Partitions are displayed as segments within the boxes (a drive can have multiple partitions, each with it is own drive letter).
Working partitions have a blue strip at the top & the text ought to say Healthy. This may be followed by either (Method) or (Active) if the drives have an OS on them & are bootable.
Unpartitioned (new) drives ought to say 'Unallocated' & have a black strip in lieu of blue.
The drive at the top of the list ought to be Disk 0 & normally shows as (C :). You ought to see your new drive somewhere below it.
The first thing you need to do is generate or more partitions...
Warning: Make definite you do not select the wrong drive. Doing the following with a drive other than the newly installed (the marked as 'Unallocated') will delete all the knowledge currently on it & you will never see it again.
Right click on the box for your new drive & a menu will pop up. Left click on the 'New Partition...' entry.
Click Next.
(To be continued in part 2…)
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