No initialze option in Disk management!

1 Apr 2005 11:32 PM

Nicholas

I bought a laptop Hard drive and enclosure for a backup. Instructions
say it needs to be "initialize" through disk management. The disk shows
up and I can right click on it, but initialize is not one of the
options. The only things that shows up is Properties and Help. New
Partition is grayed out. I tried it on 2 machines both running XP home,
same result.

Enclosure is Sabrent X Drive.

Any suggestions?

2 Apr 2005 12:33 AM

philo

"Nicholas" <calypson@bell_axe-this_south.net> wrote in message
news:mOk3e.13671$vK6.13495@bignews3.bellsouth.net...
> I bought a laptop Hard drive and enclosure for a backup. Instructions
> say it needs to be "initialize" through disk management. The disk shows
> up and I can right click on it, but initialize is not one of the
> options. The only things that shows up is Properties and Help. New
> Partition is grayed out. I tried it on 2 machines both running XP home,
> same result.
>
> Enclosure is Sabrent X Drive.
>

it probably is initialized already

normally one would just create a partition
format it and assign a drive letter...

do not create a dynamic disc

2 Apr 2005 12:36 AM

Bennett Price

Nicholas wrote:

> I bought a laptop Hard drive and enclosure for a backup. Instructions
> say it needs to be "initialize" through disk management. The disk shows
> up and I can right click on it, but initialize is not one of the
> options. The only things that shows up is Properties and Help. New
> Partition is grayed out. I tried it on 2 machines both running XP home,
> same result.
>
> Enclosure is Sabrent X Drive.
>
> Any suggestions?

perhaps it just needs to be formatted.