Sees the drive in bios, sees the drive in system/hardware...when you populate the volume it is not initialized, what the fuck what the fuck!

Try partedmagic, its a free open source program you burn to cd/dvd that lets you format and partition hard drives, you can use it to format the drive as ntfs (if you're using windows). Get it at hXXp://partedmagic.com/ (change the two XXes to tt).

7GBs! Wouldn't it be quciker just tp buy a partion program? I need to create a front drive with three partitions anyway for the disk imaging utility, just thought i would be able to get round this, vain hope, with windows own formatting facility which i had imagined would kick in when it saw the volume? I really do hate you Gates.


probably my fault have samsung laptop xp on my desktop so probably wasn't expecting a second internal drive just got an xp pro off ebay, the one i had intended to use has been given to somebody else with no reboot disk.

then simply....

7GB? Nah man it's about 70MB. Try here - http://partedmagic.linuxfreedom.com/

Try what Culchi suggests, and see what Parted makes of it - or any Linux distro that you can boot as a LiveCD (Ubuntu etc.) that you may already have lying around.

It could be something like a simple matter of the IDE/SATA drivers' settings/freshness or a registry thing.