Installing a second hard drive - problem

I have just inserted a second hard drive - 1TB which has been previously
installed on a friends computer, as far as I know it's been wiped but.....

In Disk Management it appears: Disk 1 - and there is no drive letter,
stating it has an available capacity of 931.51GB
To the right hand side of Disk1 it shows an area with a black stripe along
the top 1.51GB unallocated and an area with a Blue stripe along the top
930GB

If I right click on the black 'box' I am given just one option - New Single
Volume
If I right click on the blue 'box' I am given just one option - Delete
volume

All I want to do is make one big space i.e. the entire available 931.51gb
formatted as drive D:\

Can some kind person walk me through the steps to do this please


--
Ron

Hi,

Delete the existing volume (blue box), then all of the drive should appear
black. Right click on the now-larger black area and create a new volume.
Once created, format it and you're good to go.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"Ron O'Brien" <castcall@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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>I have just inserted a second hard drive - 1TB which has been previously
>installed on a friends computer, as far as I know it's been wiped but.....
>
> In Disk Management it appears: Disk 1 - and there is no drive letter,
> stating it has an available capacity of 931.51GB
> To the right hand side of Disk1 it shows an area with a black stripe along
> the top 1.51GB unallocated and an area with a Blue stripe along the top
> 930GB
>
> If I right click on the black 'box' I am given just one option - New
> Single Volume
> If I right click on the blue 'box' I am given just one option - Delete
> volume
>
> All I want to do is make one big space i.e. the entire available 931.51gb
> formatted as drive D:\
>
> Can some kind person walk me through the steps to do this please
>
>
> --
> Ron

Thanks....that did the job

Ron


"Rick Rogers" <rick@mvps.org> wrote in message
news:eLaq%23VKhKHA.5564@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> Delete the existing volume (blue box), then all of the drive should appear
> black. Right click on the now-larger black area and create a new volume.
> Once created, format it and you're good to go.
>
> --
> Best of Luck,
>
> Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
> http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
> Windows help - www.rickrogers.org
>
> "Ron O'Brien" <castcall@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
> news:O8I5PxIhKHA.2104@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>>I have just inserted a second hard drive - 1TB which has been previously
>>installed on a friends computer, as far as I know it's been wiped but.....
>>
>> In Disk Management it appears: Disk 1 - and there is no drive letter,
>> stating it has an available capacity of 931.51GB
>> To the right hand side of Disk1 it shows an area with a black stripe
>> along the top 1.51GB unallocated and an area with a Blue stripe along the
>> top 930GB
>>
>> If I right click on the black 'box' I am given just one option - New
>> Single Volume
>> If I right click on the blue 'box' I am given just one option - Delete
>> volume
>>
>> All I want to do is make one big space i.e. the entire available 931.51gb
>> formatted as drive D:\
>>
>> Can some kind person walk me through the steps to do this please
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ron
>