02-09-2004, 10:36 AM
Hi Z
Formatted or not the PC should be able to 'see' the drive.
If you can get into the BIOS setup and see if the drive is known to the system.
If it is then you should be able to run fdisk to format and partition the disk. This depends if you have fdisk on your recovery disk.
There may be some other tool on there that you can use.
If the BIOS says that there is no hard disk [0] then I would suggest that it is not properly connected. Can you hear it spin up when you power on?
BTW I'd be surprised if the disk wasn't formatted in some shape or form.
Ade
Formatted or not the PC should be able to 'see' the drive.
If you can get into the BIOS setup and see if the drive is known to the system.
If it is then you should be able to run fdisk to format and partition the disk. This depends if you have fdisk on your recovery disk.
There may be some other tool on there that you can use.
If the BIOS says that there is no hard disk [0] then I would suggest that it is not properly connected. Can you hear it spin up when you power on?
BTW I'd be surprised if the disk wasn't formatted in some shape or form.
Ade