Help with New Hard Drive

[RudolfMDLT]

Richard Wrote: 
> Have a second hard drive installed its a slave drive,

> can't see it load on boot up, screen too fast.

> /dev/hd* does not find it

> 

> I would like to format this drive, and mount it.

> pls: how does one do this?

> 

> -Rich

> 





You don't give me lots of info to work with...:) I don't know how
technical to be so I'll explain the best I can.



Can you see the Hard drive in your BIOS. Is it visible as a drive you
can select as a drive to boot from? If not, check your jumper settings.
Your old drive my be on Cable select and the new one as slave, this
could produce problems. Make sure that the master drive has the jumper
settings for master and that the slave is set to slave. Some new drives
are set to cable select by default.



Is the drive IDE or SATA. If it's new it's probably SATA and we'll have
to approach this differently.



If you do see the drive in the BIOS, do you have a second OS? Can you
see the drive in this OS?



If no second OS you can install GParted. It's a partition utility for
Linux and will mount, unmount and partition any drive if you connected
it correctly.



To install Gparted:

In the terminal

> 

> sudo apt-get install gparted

> 



Gparted has a great GUI and is easy to use. Use the drop down in the
top right hand corner to locate your drive.



Hope this helps!:)


-- 
RudolfMDLT