From: nospam@needed.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 12/22/2025 1:38 AM, J. P. Gilliver wrote:   
   > On 2025/12/22 3:32:31, Brian Gregory wrote:   
   >> On 21/12/2025 19:38, Steve wrote:   
   >>> So Disk Management knows it's there. Now I need to know how to format it   
   >>> and give it a drive number.   
   >>   
   >> Let the disk cloning software do it.   
   >>   
   >> If you didn't understand why it didn't immediately have a drive letter   
   >> then there's absolutely no chance at all the you would understand how to   
   >> partition it ready for Windows.   
   >>   
   > I thought he said he'd tried the cloning software without success?   
   >   
   >   
      
   Cloning software will "see" a disk, even if the disk is "all zeros"   
   and is completely and utterly flattened :-) I test stuff like this.   
   I flatten disks, end to end, for forensics projects.   
      
   The disk can also be seen in Disk Management right now. The OP   
   has printed in a post   
      
       "the next box shows 931.32 GB Unallocated"   
      
   If that is partitioned as "MBR" from the left-most square on that   
   row, then a partition can be added just for fun, so that a drive   
   letter shows up in File Explorer.   
      
   Otherwise as Brian says, use the cloning software to load it.   
      
   But if the cloning software (for whatever reason) refuses   
   to acknowledge the "931.32 GB Unallocated", then like a fisherman,   
   you can manually set it up with MBR and add a partition, so it   
   is more "obvious" to any other software.   
      
   The cloning software "really really" should not need this.   
      
   But we're dealing with computers, and just about anything   
   can happen with a computer.   
      
      Paul   
      
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