Can Not See Hard Drive

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I have just installed XP Pro on a New Hard Drive. I have two hard drives
installed.
Both drives are showing in Bios, Both drives are showing in Device Mgr. But
when I go to My Computer the second drive does not show.
I tried deleting the drive in Device Mgr & doing 'ADD Hardware' the drive is
found w/ no error messages, but still can not see in My Computer.
This second drive was seen and working fine with my old 'C' drive.
HELP
Thanks,
Paul
 
I have just installed XP Pro on a New Hard Drive. I have two hard drives
installed.
Both drives are showing in Bios, Both drives are showing in Device Mgr. But
when I go to My Computer the second drive does not show.
I tried deleting the drive in Device Mgr & doing 'ADD Hardware' the drive is
found w/ no error messages, but still can not see in My Computer.
This second drive was seen and working fine with my old 'C' drive.
HELP
Thanks,
Paul
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the 2nd drive must be formatted first before it can be seen in
windows, from a command prompt can you access it by letter (ie win>cd
d:)? you will need to fdisk d: (or whatever the drive letter is)

Flamer.
 
This drive has data on it. It worked finewith my old 'C" drive. But when I
installed my new 'C' drive XP does not see it even though everywhere I look
(except My Computer) the system sees it.
 
Paul said:
I have just installed XP Pro on a New Hard Drive. I have two hard drives
installed.
Both drives are showing in Bios, Both drives are showing in Device Mgr.
But
when I go to My Computer the second drive does not show.
I tried deleting the drive in Device Mgr & doing 'ADD Hardware' the drive
is
found w/ no error messages, but still can not see in My Computer.
This second drive was seen and working fine with my old 'C' drive.
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Right click My Computer | Manage | Disk Management. What shows in the
right pane? Is the drive listed? Is a drive letter assigned to it? If not
right click on the volume in the right pane and assign a drive letter.
 
Rock,

Slave Drive - Partiion - Basic - Fat32 - Healthy (Active)

Is this what you were asking for?
Thanks,
 
Slave Drive - Partiion - Basic - Fat32 - Healthy (Active)

Is this what you were asking for?
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Paul:
Try this...

1. Shut down your machine and disconnect that second HDD from the system.
2. Boot to your boot drive with *only* that HDD connected.
3. Shut down the machine and reconnect the secondary HDD. Make absolutely
sure that you've jumpered it correctly and that the data (signal) cable &
power connector are securely connected.
4. Boot. Hopefully the secondary HDD will be detected with a drive letter
assignment. If not, access Disk Management and see if you can now assign a
drive letter assignment to that drive.

If still no go...

Could you try connecting the drive to another IDE connector? (I'm assuming
we're dealing with a PATA and not an SATA HDD, right?)

Do you have another IDE data cable handy?

In Disk Management - Action > Rescan Disks.
Anna
 
Anna,
No Luck - The ribbin connect is part of a three connect string.
This was working before I changed drives. Why if disk can be seen by all,
but in 'My Computer'?
 
How old is the onboard bios of the PC the second hard drive added originally
was contained in?
 
Anna said:
Paul:
Try this...

1. Shut down your machine and disconnect that second HDD from the system.
2. Boot to your boot drive with *only* that HDD connected.
3. Shut down the machine and reconnect the secondary HDD. Make absolutely
sure that you've jumpered it correctly and that the data (signal) cable &
power connector are securely connected.
4. Boot. Hopefully the secondary HDD will be detected with a drive letter
assignment. If not, access Disk Management and see if you can now assign a
drive letter assignment to that drive.

If still no go...

Could you try connecting the drive to another IDE connector? (I'm assuming
we're dealing with a PATA and not an SATA HDD, right?)

Do you have another IDE data cable handy?

In Disk Management - Action > Rescan Disks.
Anna
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Paul said:
Anna,
No Luck - The ribbin connect is part of a three connect string.
This was working before I changed drives. Why if disk can be seen by all,
but in 'My Computer'?
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Paul:
Let me give this one more shot...

It's really difficult to understand your response and it would be truly
helpful if you could explain yourself in clear-cut terms so that we can gain
an understanding of just what your situation is and what you've done to
possibly resolve the problem.

So...

When you respond with a statement such as "No Luck - The ribbin connect is
part of a three connect string.", what in the world does that mean?

So let's start with some basics, OK?

1. I assume we're dealing here with two PATA - not SATA HDDs. That's right,
isn't it?
2. Your boot drive is connected as Primary Master is it not? You understand
what "Primary Master" means, yes?
3. Is there any chance that your boot drive is jumpered as Cable Select? Do
you know what I mean by "Cable Select"?
4. Your boot drive is connected to the Primary IDE channel on the
motherboard, right? You understand your motherboard contains two IDE
channels - the Primary one and the Secondary one, yes?
5. How is your secondary HDD connected? Is it jumpered as Slave or is it
jumpered as Cable Select? Is it connected to the middle connector of the
data (ribbon) cable that's connected to your boot drive?
Or is that secondary HDD connected to the Secondary IDE channel? And if so,
how is it jumpered?

Did you follow the process I outlined in my previous response to you? Tell
us exactly what you did and exactly what were the results?
Anna
 
Paul said:
Rock,

Slave Drive - Partiion - Basic - Fat32 - Healthy (Active)

Is this what you were asking for?
Thanks,
Click to expand...

Yes that was it. I'm not sure why you can't assign a drive letter but that
is why it isn't showing up in My Computer. Ok I see Anna has given you some
good troubleshooting steps to follow. Follow up to her posts and let's see
where that leads.
 

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