2nd drive not showing in explorer

[Bob H]

I have just added a 2nd HD to my win2k box, and although it shows up in
the BIOS as SLAVE and is also showing in 'SYSTEM' as Drive 1, it does
not appear in explorer. The HD is a seagate 40Gb ST340810A
Any ideas please?
Thanks

 

[spodosaurus]

I have just added a 2nd HD to my win2k box, and although it shows up in
the BIOS as SLAVE and is also showing in 'SYSTEM' as Drive 1, it does
not appear in explorer. The HD is a seagate 40Gb ST340810A
Any ideas please?
Thanks

Try partitioning and formatting it.

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[Ruel Smith]

I have just added a 2nd HD to my win2k box, and although it shows up in the
BIOS as SLAVE and is also showing in 'SYSTEM' as Drive 1, it does not
appear in explorer. The HD is a seagate 40Gb ST340810A
Any ideas please?

Format it.

 

[Bob H]

Try partitioning and formatting it.

It is formatted with WindowsXP on it wich is currently unbootable.I am
going to try and recover tha data files from it once it is seen in explorer.

 

[Bob H]

Format it.

It is formatted with WinXP on it which is currently unbootable

 

[spodosaurus]

It is formatted with WindowsXP on it wich is currently unbootable.I am
going to try and recover tha data files from it once it is seen in
explorer.

doesn't xp employ a new(er) version of ntfs that which previous versions
didn't use?

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spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply

I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/

 

[Bob H]

doesn't xp employ a new(er) version of ntfs that which previous versions
didn't use?

I don't know, but it does not have any service packs on it, and I did
one last week for sombody which was an NTFS partition.
This one does not have any driver letter assigned, but then it won't if
its not even showing in explorer. I don't understand this?????

 

[spodosaurus]

I don't know, but it does not have any service packs on it,

The xp drive or the 2000 OS?

and I did
one last week for sombody which was an NTFS partition.
This one does not have any driver letter assigned, but then it won't if
its not even showing in explorer. I don't understand this?????

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spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply

I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/

 

[spodosaurus]

The xp drive or the 2000 OS?

This is what I'm referring to:

http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-9632-Hard-Drive-Win-2k-Pro-NTFS-gt-XP-NTFS.html


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spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply

I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/

 

[spodosaurus]

This is what I'm referring to:

http://www.techspot.com/vb/all/windows/t-9632-Hard-Drive-Win-2k-Pro-NTFS-gt-XP-NTFS.html

ack, clicked 'send' too soon. Here's the quote from that page which may
(or may not) be useful to you:

"Windows 2000 does not natively support NTFS 5.1, but SP-1 corrects this
problem. So make sure you have a recent service pack installed so you'll
be able to read your XP drive in your Windows 2000 computer."


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spammage trappage: remove the underscores to reply

I'm going to die rather sooner than I'd like. I tried to protect my
neighbours from crime, and became the victim of it. Complications in
hospital following this resulted in a serious illness. I now need a bone
marrow transplant. Many people around the world are waiting for a marrow
transplant, too. Please volunteer to be a marrow donor:
http://www.abmdr.org.au/
http://www.marrow.org/

 

[Conor]

This one does not have any driver letter assigned, but then it won't if
its not even showing in explorer. I don't understand this?????

That's cos you're thick. Its pretty ****ing simple to work out what's
wrong.

Explorer only shows drives with letters assigned. Go into Disk Manager
and ****ing assign it one.

 

[JAD]

repair install boot from CD

I don't know, but it does not have any service packs on it, and I did
one last week for sombody which was an NTFS partition.
This one does not have any driver letter assigned, but then it won't if
its not even showing in explorer. I don't understand this?????

 

[Stephen]

It is formatted with WinXP on it which is currently unbootable

Go into Drive Manager and bring it online.

Stephen
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[Kill Bill]

Go into Drive Manager and bring it online.

Stephen
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TweakUI has a drives section you can modify. Hide/show, etc.

http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx

 

[Bob H]

That's cos you're thick. Its pretty ****ing simple to work out what's
wrong.

Explorer only shows drives with letters assigned. Go into Disk Manager
and ****ing assign it one.

How can I assign a drive letter when its NOT shown in disk manager.

 

[Bob H]

Go into Drive Manager and bring it online.

Stephen

Its not shown in Disk/Drive Manager

 

[Bob H]

ack, clicked 'send' too soon. Here's the quote from that page which may
(or may not) be useful to you:

"Windows 2000 does not natively support NTFS 5.1, but SP-1 corrects this
problem. So make sure you have a recent service pack installed so you'll
be able to read your XP drive in your Windows 2000 computer."

My Win2k system is fully upto date with sp4 now.

 

[Michael Hawes]

Its not shown in Disk/Drive Manager

If it's not showing in Disk Manager, it's not working! Download Seatools
from Seagate site.
Mike.

 

[David Maynard]

How can I assign a drive letter when its NOT shown in disk manager.

If it's not showing in Disk Manager then you've got either a bad drive or a
master/slave conflict that's preventing it from being detected.