Can't seem to use one of my Hard Drives!?!

It has to be partitioned and formated before it will show up in my computer. It will show up in Disk Management, partition and format it there.
 
Thanks alot! :)
but I can't seem to find Disk Management! I've got Device Manager! But there is No Where to partition the Drive in there! Please Advise! Thanks! :)
 
Right click on "my computer" click on manage, when the next page loads, click on disk management on the left. Then you find the drive and partition and then format it.
 
Thanks So Much!
Got it now! but still need help, I've partitioned it now, But I cant seem to format it! it says "Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk!"
What do I do? & under the Volume it says "System Reserved!" I Think I accidently Reserved it earlier! Any Ideas?
Many Thanks! :)
 
JesusAlex said:
Thanks So Much!
Got it now! but still need help, I've partitioned it now, But I cant seem to format it! it says "Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk!"
What do I do? & under the Volume it says "System Reserved!" I Think I accidently Reserved it earlier! Any Ideas?
Many Thanks! :)
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If you've just created the partition, you don't need to format.

Make sure you're working on the correct drive also.

If you've made a mistake, you can just Delete the partition.
 
Windows 7 will create a certain amount of space called system reserved and you can't do anything with it. I just installed windows 7 on a machine yesterday and it reserved around 100mb of around 250 gb. Can you give us a screen shot of your disk management screen?
 
johnb35 said:
Windows 7 will create a certain amount of space called system reserved and you can't do anything with it. I just installed windows 7 on a machine yesterday and it reserved around 100mb of around 250 gb. Can you give us a screen shot of your disk management screen?
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Yeahh, thats Exactly what it's doing! & I don't know how to get the rest of it Active! I thought I partitioned it earlier, but all I did was expand the reserved space to the whole drive! but I've shrunk it back down to 100mb now, but I'm not sure what to do with it now! I can't supply a screen shot till I get home 2morrow! But that is the problem! 100mb bytes is reserved & the rest is "Unlocated" or something like that & I don't know what to do!
Many thanks for your help so far! Ill put a screen shot up 2mo when I can! :)
 
Right click opn the unallocated part and click on new simple volume. This partitions it and formats it, just follow the prompts. Make sure you assign it a drive letter.
 
You know which 2 Hard Drives I Have & how I've booted etc! Which one would it be best to installl Adobe Master Collection onto?

Many Thanks! :)
 
I always install games and apps on the same drive that windows is installed on and leave the 2tb drive for personal files, music, etc...
 
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