A22m 30 GB in HDD in Ultrabay

[geochandler]

I bought from IBM a 09N4268 30 GB hard drive and 08K6068 HDD adapter to put it in the ultrabay on my A22m, thinking to use Norton Ghost to clone my existing 20 GB onto the new 30 GB. The system does not give a name (e.g., "F") to the new hard drive in the ultrabay HDD adapter. The system does list the new hard drive in control panel/system/device manager but it never appears on "my computer" and Ghost does not recognize it as a possible destination disk. How do I give it a name? Is that what's required to use Ghost? I'm running Windows 2000.

[Jim Hope]

geochandler,

I'm guessing the Windows was not able to automatically assign a drive letter, so go to:

Start
Control Panel
Administrative Tools
Computer Management
Storage
Disk Management (Local)
... at this point you should be able to see a visual layout of your disks.
The new one will probably be visible but probably does not have a drive letter assigned.
Right click the disk without a drive letter
Click Change Drive Letter and Paths
Click Change - and pick a drive letter.

Note: this path (above) was what I saw using WinXP Pro. Your route to get here may be slightly different, but the principle is the same.

[Davejb]

Your problem is this; Hard drives do not get assigned drive letters, partitions get assigned drive letters, new hard drives do not come with any partitions, thus, no drive letters. Use the procedure above, but instead of assigning a drive letter (which willl not work) create and format a new partition on the drive, during the procedure it will ask what drive letter you want to assign the partition.
As far as using Ghost, if your doing a disk to disk copy, no partiton is required on the destination drive, if you are doing a disk to image backup, a formatted partition is required on the destination drive.