OLD harddrive doesn't appear in "My Computer" (2nd POST - pls help)

[Guest]

I had two maxtor drives each 30GB one which had XP on it and other which I was using for storing data. XP crashed on me and subsequently I added a new disk Hitachi 180 GB. I installed XP fresh on Hitachi and copied files from Maxtor disk which originally had XP on it. Later I disconnected the maxtor disk which originally had XP and then connected the other maxtor disk which has data on it. After doing this, I don't see the maxtor disk in "My Computer"; it does appear in the "Disk Management" as "unallocated space". I checked my jumpers, maxtor 30GB disk is slave and Hitachi 180 GB is the master; both the disks are on the same cable. I tried connecting maxtor 30GB drive to another cable/channel but still no help. Currenly I have both drives on the same cable. I would appreciate if you can tell me how I can get XP to recognize this drive so that I can get data from this disk. thanks

 

[Wayne B.]

Try this. Go to "Run" and type in cmd and hit enter. At
the prompt, type diskpart and hit enter. Then type list
volume. without the . That should conclusively tell
you if anything is being seen at all. If not, go back
to "Disk Management" and rt click it. Choose "Rescan
Disks" and >hopefully< that will get it recognized.

-----Original Message-----

I had two maxtor drives each 30GB one which had XP on it

and other which I was using for storing data. XP crashed
on me and subsequently I added a new disk Hitachi 180
GB. I installed XP fresh on Hitachi and copied files
from Maxtor disk which originally had XP on it. Later I
disconnected the maxtor disk which originally had XP and
then connected the other maxtor disk which has data on
it. After doing this, I don't see the maxtor disk
in "My Computer"; it does appear in the "Disk Management"
as "unallocated space". I checked my jumpers, maxtor
30GB disk is slave and Hitachi 180 GB is the master; both
the disks are on the same cable. I tried connecting
maxtor 30GB drive to another cable/channel but still no
help. Currenly I have both drives on the same cable. I
would appreciate if you can tell me how I can get XP to
recognize this drive so that I can get data from this
disk. thanks

 

[Guest]

The disk does appear in Disk Management as "unallocated", however it doesn't show up in "My Computer". I tried rescanning in "Disk Management" but I still see it as "unallocated", also this is still not visible in "My computer