"Thomas Wendell" <tumppiw_nospam@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:OA$aeev%23FHA.3104@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>A fried asked me to install a new 200GB Samsung SP2014N.
> I installed it as slave to the existing 80GB HD (didn't look at mfg),
> booted WinXPpro as usual, disk seen and and installed successfully.
> Staed diskmgmt.msc. At that point the HD setup wizard buzzed into action,
> which I didn't like, so I cancelled it.
> Right click on disk1, create partition.....?.. NO. Of three rows of
> choices, the first one (create partition) is grayed out?????????
> And the Add disk wizard would only have created a DYNAMIC disk, which I of
> priciple don't do.
> Anybody have an idea why/what??
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> (Luckily I had prepared me with a BootItNG diskette, creating partitions
> with that worhed flawlessly, and the partitions are seen and formatted by
> XP ok.....)
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> I always use FDISK to set up HDs. On some of the older PCs it wont read a
> really big HD right but most HDs come with the software to set them up.
> At least Western Digital does.
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