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24th August 2002 | 14:22

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From: Peripatetic

The PC will see it immediately. For the OS to see it, it must be formatted.

You must use FDISK to create a partition (you can split it and create more "virtual" disks if you want) and then FORMAT to format it.

Windows will then see it.