OLD harddrive doesn't appear in "My Computer" (2nd POST - pls help)

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I had two maxtor drives each 30GB one which had XP on it and other which I was using for storing data. XP crashed on me and subsequently I added a new disk Hitachi 180 GB. I installed XP fresh on Hitachi and copied files from Maxtor disk which originally had XP on it. Later I disconnected the maxtor disk which originally had XP and then connected the other maxtor disk which has data on it. After doing this, I don't see the maxtor disk in "My Computer"; it does appear in the "Disk Management" as "unallocated space". I checked my jumpers, maxtor 30GB disk is slave and Hitachi 180 GB is the master; both the disks are on the same cable. I tried connecting maxtor 30GB drive to another cable/channel but still no help. Currenly I have both drives on the same cable. I would appreciate if you can tell me how I can get XP to recognize this drive so that I can get data from this disk. thanks
 
Try this. Go to "Run" and type in cmd and hit enter. At
the prompt, type diskpart and hit enter. Then type list
volume. without the . That should conclusively tell
you if anything is being seen at all. If not, go back
to "Disk Management" and rt click it. Choose "Rescan
Disks" and >hopefully< that will get it recognized.
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I had two maxtor drives each 30GB one which had XP on it
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and other which I was using for storing data. XP crashed
on me and subsequently I added a new disk Hitachi 180
GB. I installed XP fresh on Hitachi and copied files
from Maxtor disk which originally had XP on it. Later I
disconnected the maxtor disk which originally had XP and
then connected the other maxtor disk which has data on
it. After doing this, I don't see the maxtor disk
in "My Computer"; it does appear in the "Disk Management"
as "unallocated space". I checked my jumpers, maxtor
30GB disk is slave and Hitachi 180 GB is the master; both
the disks are on the same cable. I tried connecting
maxtor 30GB drive to another cable/channel but still no
help. Currenly I have both drives on the same cable. I
would appreciate if you can tell me how I can get XP to
recognize this drive so that I can get data from this
disk. thanks
 
The disk does appear in Disk Management as "unallocated", however it doesn't show up in "My Computer". I tried rescanning in "Disk Management" but I still see it as "unallocated", also this is still not visible in "My computer
 
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