I can see my secondry hard drive, in the device manager, but when I try to
populate, it gives me the message that no information is found.
Also I can't see this drive on my computer, although it was there during
installation of windows Vista Home Premuim.

"Sameh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>I can see my secondry hard drive, in the device manager, but when I try to
> populate, it gives me the message that no information is found.
> Also I can't see this drive on my computer, although it was there during
> installation of windows Vista Home Premuim.


Can you see the drive and health status in Disc Management? Have you tried
formatting the drive?

--
Jim

the drive status said its working properly, but i can not format it as the
properties button is dimed.
And also this hard drive consists of a lot of data

"JimR" wrote:

> "Sameh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:6D6A19F0-5E72-4BCC-8289-(E-Mail Removed)...
> >I can see my secondry hard drive, in the device manager, but when I try to
> > populate, it gives me the message that no information is found.
> > Also I can't see this drive on my computer, although it was there during
> > installation of windows Vista Home Premuim.
>
>
> Can you see the drive and health status in Disc Management? Have you tried
> formatting the drive?
>
> --
> Jim
>

It sounds to me that what you are seeing is not a second hard drive, but a
second partition that holds the restoration files.
"Sameh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> the drive status said its working properly, but i can not format it as the
> properties button is dimed.
> And also this hard drive consists of a lot of data
>
> "JimR" wrote:
>
>> "Sameh" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:6D6A19F0-5E72-4BCC-8289-(E-Mail Removed)...
>> >I can see my secondry hard drive, in the device manager, but when I try
>> >to
>> > populate, it gives me the message that no information is found.
>> > Also I can't see this drive on my computer, although it was there
>> > during
>> > installation of windows Vista Home Premuim.
>>
>>
>> Can you see the drive and health status in Disc Management? Have you
>> tried
>> formatting the drive?
>>
>> --
>> Jim
>>