Adding a new HD under win2k?

[Pillin]

Just bought a brand new HD and while the pc detects it i cant format or partition it.. how do i do this ?
typing fdisk in a cmd prompt does nothing

any help appreciated

 

[Loth]

Right click My Computer, then choose Manage.

Then choose Disk Management - you should see the new disk in there as 'Disk1' or similar.

Then you can right click on that to format it and assign drive letter etc.

Fdisk won't work in Win2k, you have to use a DOS bootdisk if you wanted to prepare the disk using it.

 

[Pillin]

New HD

Thanks now Im just worried that ill frie one or both of my HD's becouse when they are on top of each other like that they get scorching hot :/

should i worry about this?

 

[old.Anpu]

Depends on the speed of the HD's. If both are 5200rpm you shouldnt have to worry about too much heat. But if they are 7200 or 10000 rpm you better get a fan.

/Anpu

 

[Jupitus]

Re: New HD

Originally posted by Pillin
Thanks now Im just worried that ill frie one or both of my HD's becouse when they are on top of each other like that they get scorching hot :/

should i worry about this?

Hmmm... well you haven't given us much detail on the mounting, so I'll be non-specific.

Expect the HDUs to get fairly warm during normal operation - this is not unusual and shouldn't harm them. If you have SCSI HDUs (rather than IDE which is far more common) then these do tend to get hotter still in my experience, but will still operate normally.

If the drives are mounted within your case using the mounting points provided, then I would expect there to be sufficient space around them for air to circulate and they should be fine. If you have simply glued the two of them together, however, expect trouble

If they get too hot to touch, and are standard IDE drives, then I would say it looks like there is an issue. I would recommend checking the cooling fan currently installed in your case and consider getting it upgraded to a more powerful one (bear in mind that this is likley to also be more noisy).

If you are not confident about replacing cooling fans, or are stil not sure, then take your PC to a repair place and get their opinion - fans are not very expensive and could be a worthwhile investment...

Good luck,

Jup.

 

[Ardwan]

Re: Re: New HD

Originally posted by Jupitus
If you have simply glued the two of them together

Then you deserve to be given a job at PC World or Tiny

 

[Pillin]

think they are hireing?

Actually no I didnt glue them toghether
sorry for not being more specific but i was in a hurry (worried that i would melt one of them or something)
Ive actually solved the problem now with placing the old HD so its semi suspended in mid air, resting at the bottom of the cabinet with one end (padded with a pringles top to eliminate vibrations )

 

[old.dittytwo]

Re: think they are hireing?

Originally posted by Pillin
Actually no I didnt glue them toghether
sorry for not being more specific but i was in a hurry (worried that i would melt one of them or something)
Ive actually solved the problem now with placing the old HD so its semi suspended in mid air, resting at the bottom of the cabinet with one end (padded with a pringles top to eliminate vibrations )

diffentely a job at Time for you

 

[Danya]

If you have a temperature sensoing device of some sort (digital for preference) you could check their temperature. You should aim to keep drives below 50C. Above that and you may start experiencing problems (random data corruption etc.)