hard drive problem

[Monte Hounchell]

I am running windows XP Home edition. With SP2

I had three hard drives and one dvd recorder hooked to my system.


all four drives were reconized and had letter assignments.

I decided to take two of the drives out... and I hooked up one drive
along with my dvd recorder drive.

I started up my system and formatted the new drive and installed
windows xp on it.

I then shut off the system and hooked up the other two drives.

I turned on the system and in Drive Management it shows the two new
drives and lists how much space is used and how much is free on each
of the two drives. BUT neither of these two drives have a drive letter
assigned to them.

They are not listed in My computer nor in the list of Explorer.

I can not access these drives and get to the data they contain.

Can anyone suggest to me what can be causing this? and how I might get
them to be reconized by windowsxp.

Thank you

Monte

 

[Guest]

HI,

Have you try to make a disk rescan from theComputer mangement console ?

Open conputer managemsnt console, then select disk management snap in.
Right click on it and select Rscan Diks

Let me know if it help ?

serge

 

[Guest]

An other point.
Does the two drive that you installed after installing XP are partition and
formatted already?

 

[Guest]

The partitions on the other drives might have been flagged as hidden in the
MBR (of the first drive) thus they would show up in Logical Disk Manager but
not in My Computer.

 

[DanS]

I am running windows XP Home edition. With SP2

I had three hard drives and one dvd recorder hooked to my system.


all four drives were reconized and had letter assignments.

I decided to take two of the drives out... and I hooked up one drive
along with my dvd recorder drive.

I started up my system and formatted the new drive and installed
windows xp on it.

I then shut off the system and hooked up the other two drives.

I turned on the system and in Drive Management it shows the two new
drives and lists how much space is used and how much is free on each
of the two drives. BUT neither of these two drives have a drive letter
assigned to them.

They are not listed in My computer nor in the list of Explorer.

I can not access these drives and get to the data they contain.

Can anyone suggest to me what can be causing this? and how I might get
them to be reconized by windowsxp.

Thank you

Monte

just for sh*ts & giggles, go to the control panel -> admin tools ->
computer management -> disk management.

see if they are shown there as not enabled, if so, just enable them there
and give them a letter.

let us know.

DanS

 

[Monte Hounchell]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:09:03 -0800, serge calderara

Hello..
I went to the disk management and right clicked on that drive and it
didn't give me the option to "rescan" but I went to the menu above and
found that command under action. I hight lighted the drive and clicked
on rescan.. it rescaned but it did not assign or reconize the drive
with a letter... It is still the same.

 

[Monte Hounchell]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:11:02 -0800, serge calderara

Yes, that drive is formatted and is eighty percent full of files.. I
have run this drive in my system for two years.. with a drive letter..
I just bought a new drive and wanted to make it my system drive.
I did that. I put in the new drive.. and installed winxp as the system
drive..
this other drive was never a system drive, it has always been a drive
to just store files.. and it has always worked perfectly.

This time when I hooked it up as the slave as it has always been..
winxp has not given it a drive letter.. and I can not access any of
the data..

 

[Monte Hounchell]

On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 06:53:05 -0800, "Homer"

Interesting.. and how do I "unhide" them.. please?

 

[Monte Hounchell]

I went to the disk management and looked at the drive.. and it is
Enabled...

 

[Ron Sommer]

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/?id=308421

 

[Guest]

There are partition utilities, some free that will do the job. My personal
fav is PM.

 

[Alex Nichol]

Interesting.. and how do I "unhide" them.. please?

What I would use is BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35
shareware - 30 day full functional trial)

Download, to its own folder, extract from the zip, run the bootitng to
make a boot floppy.

Boot the floppy, Cancel Install, entering maintenance, then click on
Partition work. Highlight the partition concerned (having selected the
right drive in the left panel; click Properties and there will be an
UnHide button if it is hidden (which I agree is likely)