HDD not recognized

[William J. Burlingame]

I just added an HDD to my XP system that was previously in a Win98SE
system. XP doesn't show a letter for the drive. With the Disk
Manager, the drive shows up but no letter is assigned. I would like
to use the drive in the XP system and would also like to retain the
data that is on the disk. What do I have to do?

Sorry for the cross posts, but I wasn't sure which group was
applicable.
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Bill Burlingame

 

[relic]

I just added an HDD to my XP system that was previously in a Win98SE
system. XP doesn't show a letter for the drive. With the Disk
Manager, the drive shows up but no letter is assigned. I would like
to use the drive in the XP system and would also like to retain the
data that is on the disk. What do I have to do?

While in Disk Manager, why didn't you give it a Drive Letter?

Sorry for the cross posts, but I wasn't sure which group was
applicable.

None of them.

bs has been included as part of my e-mail address to reduce the
amount of spam mail. Change the 'bs'in my address to 'bellsouth'
to send me a message.

Only hanky boys take it out of the newsgroup and correspond by email.

 

[William J. Burlingame]

While in Disk Manager, why didn't you give it a Drive Letter?

That option is grayed out.

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bs has been included as part of my e-mail address to reduce the
amount of spam mail. Change the 'bs'in my address to 'bellsouth'
to send me a message.

Bill Burlingame

 

[Malke]

That option is grayed out.

Is the new drive seen in the BIOS? Did you jumper both drives correctly?
Some drives - like Western Digitals - have different jumper settings
for Master with Slave so you might need to change jumpers on both
drives.

Malke