I've got a staff member with a problem; he's got a hard drive (HD) to
install as a 2nd HD in his laptop with all his GIS data. The 2nd HD is
partitioned into 2 drives (I'll call them E and F drives since the last
drive letter in use on the laptop is D). When he installs it, WinXP Pro
will only recognize 1 drive, calling it F. What can we do so that WinXP Pro
can "see" both drives?

TIA

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Mike Webb
Platte River Whooping Crane Maintenance Trust, Inc.
a 501 (c)(3) organization

Mike Webb wrote:
> I've got a staff member with a problem; he's got a hard drive (HD) to
> install as a 2nd HD in his laptop with all his GIS data. The 2nd HD is
> partitioned into 2 drives (I'll call them E and F drives since the last
> drive letter in use on the laptop is D). When he installs it, WinXP Pro
> will only recognize 1 drive, calling it F. What can we do so that WinXP Pro
> can "see" both drives?
>
> TIA
>


What was Drive E and F in its original computer --- C and
D? If was originally Drive C and it was an active partition,
then it is probably now Drive D in the laptop, making the
laptop's Drive D into Drive E. Check out this possibility in
Disk Management and re-assign the drive letters.

Will do, thanks.

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> Mike Webb wrote:
>> I've got a staff member with a problem; he's got a hard drive (HD) to
>> install as a 2nd HD in his laptop with all his GIS data. The 2nd HD is
>> partitioned into 2 drives (I'll call them E and F drives since the last
>> drive letter in use on the laptop is D). When he installs it, WinXP Pro
>> will only recognize 1 drive, calling it F. What can we do so that WinXP
>> Pro can "see" both drives?
>>
>> TIA
>>
>
>
> What was Drive E and F in its original computer --- C and
> D? If was originally Drive C and it was an active partition,
> then it is probably now Drive D in the laptop, making the
> laptop's Drive D into Drive E. Check out this possibility in
> Disk Management and re-assign the drive letters.