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Old November 10th, 2007   #11
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In Vista, you can go to your control panel, Administrative tools, computer management, storage, and then disk management, and see if you have an unassigned drive. If you do, that is where you can format the drive so that windows will be able to see/use it through Windows explorer.
Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

Great job stinger, and thanks! Finally, the hard drive space I've needed for so long!



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Old November 10th, 2007   #12
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Excellent, great you got that all sorted out... but what about the DVD drive? Is it showing up?




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Old November 10th, 2007   #13
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a quicker way for future reference:

start... run... compmgmt.msc then click on disk management
or vista just type it in the search bar and double click the compmgmt.msc icon







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a quicker way for future reference:

start... run... compmgmt.msc then click on disk management
or vista just type it in the search bar and double click the compmgmt.msc icon
Alternatively, right click my computer->manage->disk management. ;)



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Old November 10th, 2007   #15
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Beautiful. Simply beautiful.

Great job stinger, and thanks! Finally, the hard drive space I've needed for so long!
Your welcome. Oh wait, Im not Stinger... nevermind then.



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Old November 10th, 2007   #16
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Your welcome. Oh wait, Im not Stinger... nevermind then.

bitter much?



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bitter much?
Never. Im happy-go-lucky. On the other hand, I can sometimes be a bit of a smart ass (like in this case).

I was J/K. I guess I could have thrown that in there! :P




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I'm just messing with you, of course........I was going to make some smart assed comment about your post earlier, but thought better of it.



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I'm just messing with you, of course........I was going to make some smart assed comment about your post earlier, but thought better of it.

Impressive Capps!



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really? how's that?



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