drive not visible

[kah]

Running windows xp pro. Decided to install a new hard drive to become my
boot drive. Have installed windows successfully. Then attached my old drive
figuring I could pull device drivers and copy files over to new drive.
Problem is the drive does not show under My Computer. It shows in the bios
and if I go to adminstrative tools I can see it there as well but it has no
drive letter assigned. Any ideas as to why drive does not show in windows
and what I might do to make it show? Thanks.

 

[JS]

Check the drive jumper, your old drive now needs
to be set as a "Slave" or "Cable Select" depending
on the drives you are using. If the two drives are
from different manufactures you may need to try
several jumper combinations.

 

[kah]

I have them both set to master on different ide ports

 

[Don Phillipson]

Running windows xp pro. Decided to install a new hard drive to become my
boot drive. Have installed windows successfully. Then attached my old drive
figuring I could pull device drivers and copy files over to new drive.
Problem is the drive does not show under My Computer. It shows in the bios
and if I go to adminstrative tools I can see it there as well but it has no
drive letter assigned. Any ideas as to why drive does not show in windows
and what I might do to make it show? Thanks.

Perhaps it was, but the question not confirm the new drive has
been partitioned and formatted.

 

[kah]

Yes, the new drive has been formatted and partitioned. Windows is installed
on it.

 

[JS]

Disconnect one of the drives and see if the other boots.

 

[Riyazuddin Sk]

Right click on my computer then select manage

a windows will appear in that window under storage select disk management

import the drive as foreign disk.

 

[kah]

Tried this but there was no option for importing the drive

 

[kah]

Interesting turn ... if I place the old drive either on the 1st IDE port and
the new on the 2nd IDE port, I boot to the old drive and can see both drives.
Same if I make the old drive the master and the new drive the slave I see
both drives. But if I reverse this process and make the old drive the slave
or its own master on the 2nd IDE port I see only the new drive.

 

[MAP]

Running windows xp pro. Decided to install a new hard drive to
become my boot drive. Have installed windows successfully. Then
attached my old drive figuring I could pull device drivers and copy
files over to new drive. Problem is the drive does not show under My
Computer. It shows in the bios and if I go to adminstrative tools I
can see it there as well but it has no drive letter assigned. Any
ideas as to why drive does not show in windows and what I might do to
make it show? Thanks.

Do you have tweakui installed?
If so open it up and look under the heading "my computer"-"drives" check all
of the boxes for drive letters and exit.

Good luck.