"Stumped" <Stumped@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I just installed a new Hard Drive and my computer can see it. I cannot
> manipulate it in any way. Can someone please help me assign it a name
> through DOS so that Ill be able to access it through windows?
You can't do that through DOS, because DOS does not exist on XP. What
you see as a command window, or "dos box", is XP without the window
dressing.
The problem is that you haven't prepared the disk, which means initializing
it, creating at least one partition, formatting, and assigning a drive
letter.
The easiest approach is to right-click on My Computer and choose Manage.
Choose Disk Management, then right-click on the drive. You should be asked
to initialise it, and after that, you can create the partition, format it,
and assign a drive letter.
If you really have to use a command prompt, launch diskpart. It will do
exactly the same thing as Disk Management, without the UI.
HTH
-pk