2 hard drives

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One of my computers crashed. Determined it was most likely the cpu or
motherboard. I took the HD from that computer and put in my other computer
as a secondary drive to get some info from it because I added some stuff
since my last back up. After the computer boots to XP Pro, the second drive
is recognized in Device Manager but when I double-click My Computer there is
no 2nd drive. Help.....
 
Ogrish said:
One of my computers crashed. Determined it was most likely the cpu or
motherboard. I took the HD from that computer and put in my other computer
as a secondary drive to get some info from it because I added some stuff
since my last back up. After the computer boots to XP Pro, the second drive
is recognized in Device Manager but when I double-click My Computer there is
no 2nd drive. Help.....
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Did you set the Master/Slave jumper correctly on the drive.
Set it as Master or Single if it's the only drive on the cable/IDE channel.
Set it as Slave if it's a second drive added to a cable that already had a drive
connected to it. Also check the jumper on the first original attached drive to make
sure it is set as Master.

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Conflicts start where information lacks.
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Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
 
Thank you for your reply. I tried setting master/slave and cs on both. Same
results with each.
 
Ogrish said:
One of my computers crashed. Determined it was most likely the cpu or
motherboard. I took the HD from that computer and put in my other
computer
as a secondary drive to get some info from it because I added some stuff
since my last back up. After the computer boots to XP Pro, the second
drive
is recognized in Device Manager but when I double-click My Computer there
is
no 2nd drive. Help.....
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Open Disk Management and see if you can assign a drive letter to it. Right
click My Computer | Manage | Disk Management. If the drive is listed in the
right pane but no drive letter, right click on it and assign one.
 
It is listed with no letter, but the option to assign one is not available.
It is still registering as an active partition. Is there any way to change
that? Maybe that's the problem.
 
Ogrish said:
It is listed with no letter, but the option to assign one is not available.
It is still registering as an active partition. Is there any way to change
that? Maybe that's the problem.
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Other KB articles:
Missing and other hard drive MSKB articles

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Brian A. Sesko { MS MVP_Shell/User }
Conflicts start where information lacks.
http://basconotw.mvps.org/

Suggested posting do's/don'ts: http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm
How to ask a question: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375
 
=?Utf-8?B?T2dyaXNo?= said:
One of my computers crashed. Determined it was most likely the cpu or
motherboard. I took the HD from that computer and put in my other computer
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Or a screw you left under the motherboard when you built your system.
as a secondary drive to get some info from it because I added some stuff
since my last back up. After the computer boots to XP Pro, the second drive
is recognized in Device Manager but when I double-click My Computer there is
no 2nd drive. Help.....
Click to expand...

Check the drive jumpers, or if a 80 conductor cable check that you have
cable select done and the drives connected to the right place on the
cable.
 
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