neither xp nor w2k see third hd

[JRC]

I formatted my w2k disk and installed xp just a few days ago. Can
someone help me get this hd recognized before my activation time?
Its not a BIOS issue as far as I know. I can boot to dos with a
floppy and fdisk sees all disks, why doesn't xp?

Thanks, JRC

 

[Alex Marshall]

Run diskmgmt.msc and assign it a drive letter.

 

[JRC]

Doesn't it have to see the disk first? It doesn't.

 

[Alex Marshall]

The disk will not show up until it is assigned a drive letter.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
I formatted my w2k disk and installed xp just a few days ago. Can
someone help me get this hd recognized before my activation time?
Its not a BIOS issue as far as I know. I can boot to dos with a
floppy and fdisk sees all disks, why doesn't xp?

Thanks, JRC


.have u tried going into ur cmos settings? so that it can

be reconised

 

[Cari MS-MVP]

It also won't show up if it isn't partitioned and formatted... and if it's
not, you won't be able to assign it a drive letter!

Let's try to look at things in the correct order!

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Alex Marshall]

I remember reading that he could use them when booting from a DOS startup
disk so I had been thinking they were formatted, but after reading again he
just said FDISK would see them. So that may be the problem. Still, I thought
that an unformatted partition would show up; when you click on it you are
asked to format it. Maybe I'm thinking of Win98 though.

 

[JRC]

It also won't show up if it isn't partitioned and formatted... and if it's
not, you won't be able to assign it a drive letter!

Let's try to look at things in the correct order!

Cari
www.coribright.com

Prior to installing XP, I was running Win98 on a channel by itself,
as the c:\ disk.
I had a second disk, also with win98, [and I could boot to it, but
used it for storage], on a channel by itself, and it was disk d:\

I put a slave disk on the channel with c:\[as master], and xp
assigned itself letter "d:" I don't believe I was ever asked what
directory I wanted to install xp to, it just took it upon itself to
name itself "d:" Now
I have two disks assigned "d:\"

In fdisk, the xp disk is recognized, but shows no assigned drive
letter, while it shows my original d:\ as d:\, and original c: as c:

The only way I can use or see the original d: is to run c:\win98. I
can't reassign a drive letter to d: from within
win98 however, so I guess I'll try to do this for the disk with xp
from within xp.

Hey, by the way, do I really have to call MS everytime I add hardware
after I activate?

Thanks