New Drive Shows up as Network Drive

Dimension 4550, P4 with 768 RAM, 40 GB original hard drive, SP2
installed, A08 Bios.

I installed a Western Digital 250 GB IDE internal drive. I followed the
instructions in my Dimension User's Manual, swapping the original
drive into the lower position and placing the new drive in the upper
position.

Clicking on View System Information, Hardware, Device Manager, Disk
Drives, I can see the Western Digital hard drive is present.

But when I click on My Computer, I see Local Disk C:, my CD-RW drive
(D, my DVD Drive (E and Shared Docs on Network (F

I right clicked on Shared Docs on Network (F and clicked on
properties and "found" my new hard drive. I clicked on Disconnect,
then clicked on Rename and called it WD2500 Hard Drive. If I highlight
this drive it shows up as Disconnected Network Drive 232 GB Free. I
also have the network drive icon, not a hard drive icon. How do I fix
this? Make it into a local drive with a hard drive icon?

"powrwrap" <> wrote in message
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> Dimension 4550, P4 with 768 RAM, 40 GB original hard drive, SP2
> installed, A08 Bios.
>
> I installed a Western Digital 250 GB IDE internal drive. I followed the
> instructions in my Dimension User's Manual, swapping the original
> drive into the lower position and placing the new drive in the upper
> position.
>
> Clicking on View System Information, Hardware, Device Manager, Disk
> Drives, I can see the Western Digital hard drive is present.
>
> But when I click on My Computer, I see Local Disk C:, my CD-RW drive
> (D, my DVD Drive (E and Shared Docs on Network (F
>
> I right clicked on Shared Docs on Network (F and clicked on
> properties and "found" my new hard drive. I clicked on Disconnect,
> then clicked on Rename and called it WD2500 Hard Drive. If I highlight
> this drive it shows up as Disconnected Network Drive 232 GB Free. I
> also have the network drive icon, not a hard drive icon. How do I fix
> this? Make it into a local drive with a hard drive icon?
>

I assume that prior to installing the hard drive, you had a shared drive F:?

XP remembers it, but gets confused.

Right click the drive and choose disconnect. Reboot.

F: will be F:

You can then reconnect the shared folder as another drive letter

> Tom Scales wrote:

> I assume that prior to installing the hard drive, you had a shared drive F:?

Yeah, actually a folder, I guess.


> XP remembers it, but gets confused.
>
> Right click the drive and choose disconnect. Reboot.
>
> F: will be F:
>
> You can then reconnect the shared folder as another drive letter

Yeah, simple fix. For a while there I was rechecking jumpers for cable
select, checking BIOS settings, etc because I thought the computer
didn't recognize the new drive. Well, it was there all along, but once
I had made my discovery, I never rebooted the thing. Thanks Tom.

"powrwrap" <> wrote in message
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>
>> Tom Scales wrote:
>
>> I assume that prior to installing the hard drive, you had a shared drive
>> F:?
>
> Yeah, actually a folder, I guess.
>
>
>> XP remembers it, but gets confused.
>>
>> Right click the drive and choose disconnect. Reboot.
>>
>> F: will be F:
>>
>> You can then reconnect the shared folder as another drive letter
>
> Yeah, simple fix. For a while there I was rechecking jumpers for cable
> select, checking BIOS settings, etc because I thought the computer
> didn't recognize the new drive. Well, it was there all along, but once
> I had made my discovery, I never rebooted the thing. Thanks Tom.
>

Happy to help. Happens to me all the time.

> Tom Scales wrote:

> Happy to help. Happens to me all the time.

If I click on Properties for the new drive I see 71.7 MB used space.
What can be taking 71.7 MB of space on a freshly partitioned and
formatted drive?

"powrwrap" <> wrote in message
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>
>> Tom Scales wrote:
>
>> Happy to help. Happens to me all the time.
>
> If I click on Properties for the new drive I see 71.7 MB used space.
> What can be taking 71.7 MB of space on a freshly partitioned and
> formatted drive?
>

NTFS Indices

did you go under disk management and assign it a drive letter?
also if you have a shared network drive with the same letter, it needs
to be disconnected.


powrwrap wrote:
> Dimension 4550, P4 with 768 RAM, 40 GB original hard drive, SP2
> installed, A08 Bios.
>
> I installed a Western Digital 250 GB IDE internal drive. I followed the
> instructions in my Dimension User's Manual, swapping the original
> drive into the lower position and placing the new drive in the upper
> position.
>
> Clicking on View System Information, Hardware, Device Manager, Disk
> Drives, I can see the Western Digital hard drive is present.
>
> But when I click on My Computer, I see Local Disk C:, my CD-RW drive
> (D, my DVD Drive (E and Shared Docs on Network (F
>
> I right clicked on Shared Docs on Network (F and clicked on
> properties and "found" my new hard drive. I clicked on Disconnect,
> then clicked on Rename and called it WD2500 Hard Drive. If I highlight
> this drive it shows up as Disconnected Network Drive 232 GB Free. I
> also have the network drive icon, not a hard drive icon. How do I fix
> this? Make it into a local drive with a hard drive icon?
>

"XP remembers it, but gets confused." No. XP remembers it, but gets EASILY
confused.

One is also at the mercy of XP inserting any sort of USB device, then simply
disconnecting it without first going thru the bit to stop a removable device.

This is really fairly pathetic performance by the much hyped XP, especially
because it now has its second service pack plus countless megabytes of
bandaid-patches... Ben Myers

On Sun, 14 Jan 2007 17:54:19 -0500, "Tom Scales" <> wrote:

>
>"powrwrap" <> wrote in message
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>> Dimension 4550, P4 with 768 RAM, 40 GB original hard drive, SP2
>> installed, A08 Bios.
>>
>> I installed a Western Digital 250 GB IDE internal drive. I followed the
>> instructions in my Dimension User's Manual, swapping the original
>> drive into the lower position and placing the new drive in the upper
>> position.
>>
>> Clicking on View System Information, Hardware, Device Manager, Disk
>> Drives, I can see the Western Digital hard drive is present.
>>
>> But when I click on My Computer, I see Local Disk C:, my CD-RW drive
>> (D, my DVD Drive (E and Shared Docs on Network (F
>>
>> I right clicked on Shared Docs on Network (F and clicked on
>> properties and "found" my new hard drive. I clicked on Disconnect,
>> then clicked on Rename and called it WD2500 Hard Drive. If I highlight
>> this drive it shows up as Disconnected Network Drive 232 GB Free. I
>> also have the network drive icon, not a hard drive icon. How do I fix
>> this? Make it into a local drive with a hard drive icon?
>>
>
>I assume that prior to installing the hard drive, you had a shared drive F:?
>
>XP remembers it, but gets confused.
>
>Right click the drive and choose disconnect. Reboot.
>
>F: will be F:
>
>You can then reconnect the shared folder as another drive letter
>