Can't see 2nd Hard Drive in Windows Explorer

[JL Mills]

First let me say that I could see and access this 2nd drive in Windows
Explorer just fine [as drive D:] before I did a complete reinstall of Windows
XP yesterday, by complete I mean wiping the hard drive C: and reinstalling.
Now I can see just the main drive C, the floppy drive A and the CD ROM drive
D. No 2nd hard drive.

RE: THE 2ND HARD DRIVE

It doesn't show up at all in Disk Manager

It does show up in System Info/System Summary/Storage/Disks
as a local fixed disk
(The main hard drive C shows up in System Info/Sytem Summary/Storage/Drives
as a standard disk drive)

The main hard drive has a hard drive driver, atapi.sys
The 2nd hard drive has a disk driver, disk.sys
(don't know if this would make any difference, because it seems no matter
what driver, it would show up in Windows Explorer as a drive with a drive
letter)

It shows up in the Asus bios as the primary slave

In Hardware Devices it says the drive is working properly


Hope you gurus can help, thanks!

 

[Gerry]

Download and install TweakUi.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/pro/downloads/powertoys.asp

In TweakUi select My Computer, Drives. Check the box before the
partition assuming it is there.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[Andrew E.]

Was the 2nd hd disconnected (physically) during the xp installation,if not
you might do that & reinstall xp.If it was,power off pc,move the drive to
other
IDE connection (set/change pin jumpers as needed),start pc,xp should
reinstall