Adding new D Drive to my system

Hi, I am trying to add a new drive to my system and all seems well until I
switch the system off, when I reboot the drive is gone.
I am using the initialize and convert wizard in XP, I follow this through
with no problems and at the end I have my D Drive and I can use it, if I
reboot the drive is still there, If I switch off and restart, the drive has
gone ???
Anyone have any ideas I could try please ?

My system is XP Media Ed / Dell XPS 600 / RAID

isn't the D: drive the recovery partition on the Dells
if so the system will hide the drive to stop you playing with it

try make it F: or something

James

"GenWhite" <GenWhite@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:AA3DBB28-BEFC-4229-A21D-C71874308931@microsoft.com...
> Hi, I am trying to add a new drive to my system and all seems well until I
> switch the system off, when I reboot the drive is gone.
> I am using the initialize and convert wizard in XP, I follow this through
> with no problems and at the end I have my D Drive and I can use it, if I
> reboot the drive is still there, If I switch off and restart, the drive
> has
> gone ???
> Anyone have any ideas I could try please ?
>
> My system is XP Media Ed / Dell XPS 600 / RAID

Thanks for the suggestion James, turns out I have to enable the second serial
channel in Bios and all now sorted

"James West" wrote:

> isn't the D: drive the recovery partition on the Dells
> if so the system will hide the drive to stop you playing with it
>
> try make it F: or something
>
> James
>
> "GenWhite" <GenWhite@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:AA3DBB28-BEFC-4229-A21D-C71874308931@microsoft.com...
> > Hi, I am trying to add a new drive to my system and all seems well until I
> > switch the system off, when I reboot the drive is gone.
> > I am using the initialize and convert wizard in XP, I follow this through
> > with no problems and at the end I have my D Drive and I can use it, if I
> > reboot the drive is still there, If I switch off and restart, the drive
> > has
> > gone ???
> > Anyone have any ideas I could try please ?
> >
> > My system is XP Media Ed / Dell XPS 600 / RAID
>
>
>