[pchelpers] Re: Enabling Hard Disk

It may see an unformatted drive, but it is not likely to see an 
un-partitioned one. Please try the way Scott suggested, and remember- 
PARTITION FIRST. Formatting without a good partition is wasting your time.

s m d wrote:

>Yes it did occur to me that the drive is unformatted and maybe that might be 
>the problem.  Perhaps I'm wrong but wouldn't Windows still see an unformatted 
>drive?  Since Windows didn't detect that drive, then how could I proceed with 
>formatting?  I guess I can go to DOS mode and format it from there but surely 
>there must be a simpler way than that.  
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>Susan
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