Upgraded OS from W2000PRO to XP Home Edition. Install
went fine but upon reboot BIOS will not show 2nd HD nor
does it show up in XP. 2nd drive is Maxtor 6Y120P0
(120GB) and was running fine under W2000. It is NTFS and
was not touched during upgrade. Disk has data so don't
want to run Maxtor MAXBlast program which will reformat
drive. Have tried unplug/replug, restart etc. with no
results. PowerMax diagnostic shows no errors on drive.
System is older 386 and has bus interface card because
BIOS can't see whole drive. Have looked through Maxtor
and M/S support databases but can't find this problem
anywhere. Thanks for any help.

Right-click on MY COMPUTER and select MANAGE.
Click on DISK MANAGEMENT and in the lower right-hand
window (gray shaded area), right-click on your second drive
and select INITIALIZE DISK.

If that does not work:

Go to Start > Run and type: CMD , and hit enter.
In the Command Prompt window, type: DISKPART , hit enter.
Then type: RESCAN , hit enter.
Try initializing the disk again.


--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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"Landtuna" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message:
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| Upgraded OS from W2000PRO to XP Home Edition. Install
| went fine but upon reboot BIOS will not show 2nd HD nor
| does it show up in XP. 2nd drive is Maxtor 6Y120P0
| (120GB) and was running fine under W2000. It is NTFS and
| was not touched during upgrade. Disk has data so don't
| want to run Maxtor MAXBlast program which will reformat
| drive. Have tried unplug/replug, restart etc. with no
| results. PowerMax diagnostic shows no errors on drive.
| System is older 386 and has bus interface card because
| BIOS can't see whole drive. Have looked through Maxtor
| and M/S support databases but can't find this problem
| anywhere. Thanks for any help.

Thanks Carey - I had already done your first suggestion.
Tried it again but disk #2 is not shown - only disk #1 and
the 2 CD-ROMS. Tried suggestion #2. It appeared to work
but still disk #2 does not show up under Disk Management.
John
>-----Original Message-----
>Right-click on MY COMPUTER and select MANAGE.
>Click on DISK MANAGEMENT and in the lower right-hand
>window (gray shaded area), right-click on your second
drive
>and select INITIALIZE DISK.
>
>If that does not work:
>
>Go to Start > Run and type: CMD , and hit enter.
>In the Command Prompt window, type: DISKPART , hit
enter.
>Then type: RESCAN , hit enter.
>Try initializing the disk again.
>
>
>--
>Carey Frisch
>Microsoft MVP
>Windows XP - Shell/User
>
>Be Smart! Protect your PC!
>http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/
>
>----------------------------------------------------------
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>
>"Landtuna" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> news:cd7d01c40a16$146b6f80$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>| Upgraded OS from W2000PRO to XP Home Edition. Install
>| went fine but upon reboot BIOS will not show 2nd HD nor
>| does it show up in XP. 2nd drive is Maxtor 6Y120P0
>| (120GB) and was running fine under W2000. It is NTFS
and
>| was not touched during upgrade. Disk has data so don't
>| want to run Maxtor MAXBlast program which will reformat
>| drive. Have tried unplug/replug, restart etc. with no
>| results. PowerMax diagnostic shows no errors on
drive.
>| System is older 386 and has bus interface card because
>| BIOS can't see whole drive. Have looked through Maxtor
>| and M/S support databases but can't find this problem
>| anywhere. Thanks for any help.
>.
>

"Landtuna" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Upgraded OS from W2000PRO to XP Home Edition. Install
> went fine but upon reboot BIOS will not show 2nd HD nor
> does it show up in XP. 2nd drive is Maxtor 6Y120P0
> (120GB) and was running fine under W2000. It is NTFS and
> was not touched during upgrade. Disk has data so don't
> want to run Maxtor MAXBlast program which will reformat
> drive. Have tried unplug/replug, restart etc. with no
> results. PowerMax diagnostic shows no errors on drive.
> System is older 386 and has bus interface card because
> BIOS can't see whole drive. Have looked through Maxtor
> and M/S support databases but can't find this problem
> anywhere. Thanks for any help.

Are you serious? You got XP running on a 386?

Just in case it's a typo, what the BIOS sees is entirely unrelated to what
the OS is, or even if an OS is installed.

Then you said that you're using a separate card for the drive; those
normally don't show up in the BIOS as they aren't a motherboard component.

Landtuna wrote:
> Upgraded OS from W2000PRO to XP Home Edition. Install
> went fine but upon reboot BIOS will not show 2nd HD nor
> does it show up in XP. 2nd drive is Maxtor 6Y120P0
> (120GB) and was running fine under W2000. It is NTFS and
> was not touched during upgrade. Disk has data so don't
> want to run Maxtor MAXBlast program which will reformat
> drive. Have tried unplug/replug, restart etc. with no
> results. PowerMax diagnostic shows no errors on drive.
> System is older 386 and has bus interface card because
> BIOS can't see whole drive. Have looked through Maxtor
> and M/S support databases but can't find this problem
> anywhere. Thanks for any help.

This is a wind-up, right?! There's more chance of Tony Blair admitting he's
been shagging Bush than either 2000 or XP running on a 386! Even Windows 95
requires a minimum of a 486-DX100!

>Are you serious? You got XP running on a 386?

Yes, a 386. And it is running fine too....except for not
recognizing the 2nd disk.

>Just in case it's a typo, what the BIOS sees is entirely
unrelated to what the OS is, or even if an OS is installed.

>Then you said that you're using a separate card for the
drive; those normally don't show up in the BIOS as they
aren't a motherboard component.

Because the old Phoenix BIOS doesn't recognize the big 2nd
drive (120GB) I had to install an interface card and
everything was working fine under W2000

See if you can find an XP driver for the IDE expansion card.


<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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| >Are you serious? You got XP running on a 386?
|
| Yes, a 386. And it is running fine too....except for not
| recognizing the 2nd disk.
|
| >Just in case it's a typo, what the BIOS sees is entirely
| unrelated to what the OS is, or even if an OS is
installed.
|
| >Then you said that you're using a separate card for the
| drive; those normally don't show up in the BIOS as they
| aren't a motherboard component.
|
| Because the old Phoenix BIOS doesn't recognize the big 2nd
| drive (120GB) I had to install an interface card and
| everything was working fine under W2000

Greetings --

Leaving aside the fact that it's not technically possible to
upgrade from Win2K to WinXP Home, if the BIOS doesn't recognize the
hard drive, you've a hardware issue of some sort. Changing the OS
cannot affect the BIOS, and if the PC's BIOS cannot recognize the
drive, then the OS most certainly won't.

Bruce Chambers
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"Landtuna" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Upgraded OS from W2000PRO to XP Home Edition. Install
> went fine but upon reboot BIOS will not show 2nd HD nor
> does it show up in XP. 2nd drive is Maxtor 6Y120P0
> (120GB) and was running fine under W2000. It is NTFS and
> was not touched during upgrade. Disk has data so don't
> want to run Maxtor MAXBlast program which will reformat
> drive. Have tried unplug/replug, restart etc. with no
> results. PowerMax diagnostic shows no errors on drive.
> System is older 386 and has bus interface card because
> BIOS can't see whole drive. Have looked through Maxtor
> and M/S support databases but can't find this problem
> anywhere. Thanks for any help.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:ced101c40a1e$1a6e2820$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >Are you serious? You got XP running on a 386?
>
> Yes, a 386. And it is running fine too....except for not
> recognizing the 2nd disk.
>
> >Just in case it's a typo, what the BIOS sees is entirely
> unrelated to what the OS is, or even if an OS is installed.
>
> >Then you said that you're using a separate card for the
> drive; those normally don't show up in the BIOS as they
> aren't a motherboard component.
>
> Because the old Phoenix BIOS doesn't recognize the big 2nd
> drive (120GB) I had to install an interface card and
> everything was working fine under W2000

Well you have my curiosity, what is the processor speed of this 386? The
Intel 386 was first introduced 19 years ago in 1985 and if I recal would
only run at something like 33mhz, so I am curious about yours. I remember
my 386-25 mhz that I loaded windows 95 on and it was very, very, very slow.
I don't believe that W2K or XP would run.

"justme" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:ced101c40a1e$1a6e2820$(E-Mail Removed)...
> > >Are you serious? You got XP running on a 386?
> >
> > Yes, a 386. And it is running fine too....except for not
> > recognizing the 2nd disk.
> >
> > >Just in case it's a typo, what the BIOS sees is entirely
> > unrelated to what the OS is, or even if an OS is installed.
> >
> > >Then you said that you're using a separate card for the
> > drive; those normally don't show up in the BIOS as they
> > aren't a motherboard component.
> >
> > Because the old Phoenix BIOS doesn't recognize the big 2nd
> > drive (120GB) I had to install an interface card and
> > everything was working fine under W2000
>
> Well you have my curiosity, what is the processor speed of this 386? The
> Intel 386 was first introduced 19 years ago in 1985 and if I recal would
> only run at something like 33mhz, so I am curious about yours. I remember
> my 386-25 mhz that I loaded windows 95 on and it was very, very, very
slow.
> I don't believe that W2K or XP would run.
>
>
Must be some amazing customization. A 368 would have used those 30-pin
SIMMs, and the biggest those came, if a 386 mobo would support it, were 4 mb
each in 4 banks, so that would be 16 mb max. But the 386 mobo probably
wouldn't have supported the 4mb simms, so you'd be talking either 1 mb (with
4 of the 1/4 mb sticks) or 4 mb total with the 1 mb sticks.

Heh. it's getting close to April, but it's not that close yet.