No drive letter assigned after installing a new SATA or PATA hard drive.
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Before the operating system can recognize the drive and assign it a drive letter, you must partition and format the drive. This article explains.

Before the operating system can recognize the drive and assign it a drive letter, you must partition and format the drive. New hard drives are rarely pre-partitioned by the manufacturer. There are three options to formatting and partitioning the drive:

1. (Recommended) Seagate's DiscWizard utility is compatible with all Windows operating systems. The DiscWizard utility is a fast and easy way to format a drive.

2. FDISK is compatible with Windows 9x, Me. Please refer to Microsoft's knowledge base article Q255867 for instructions on FDISK.

3. Disk Management is compatible in Windows NT, 2000, XP, and 7.


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