second hard drive

[rich]

I have a second hard drive but the "my computer" screen
does not recognize it. It does show up in the device
manager and configured right in the set-up (slave drive.
I tried deleted it and having the system find it again.
There is no important data on it right now. Any
suggestions?

Thanks,
Rich

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Rich,

Has it already been partitioned? How you proceed depends on this.

If it already was and was working previously, then you may need to use
something like mbrwork from www.bootitng.com to recover it. This is
especially so if it was previously setup in another system using a drive
overlay.

If it has never been used and partitioned, then you need to first create a
partition and format it. Start/run diskmgmt.msc and right-click free space
on the drive to begin. The drive will not show in Windows Explorer until
after you have created at least one partition.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Win9x
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone

 

[Blair]

Is it possible that your second drive is formated with Fat32 and the first
drive is NTSF. I believe that an OS using NTSF cannot read a drive using
Fat32. Comments?

 

[Malke]

Is it possible that your second drive is formated with Fat32 and the
first
drive is NTSF. I believe that an OS using NTSF cannot read a drive
using Fat32. Comments?

Please quote some of the post to which you are replying; that way others
can see the original question. No, you are incorrect - fat and fat32
partitions can be viewed from ntfs and ntfs partitions cannot be viewed
from within fat* partitions. Probably the OP's drive was not
initialized and/or formatted.

Malke

 

[Mike]

Go to control panel - Administrative Tools - Computer Management - Disk
Management and make sure the drive is set to active.

 

[Ron Sommer]

I disagree with you statement.
The operating system views the files on the partitions.
Window NT, Xp, and 2000 can view NTFS or Fat* partitions.
Windows 98 and earlier Windows or Dos can only view Fat* partitions.

 

[jdk]

Blair wrote:




Please quote some of the post to which you are replying; that way others
can see the original question. No, you are incorrect - fat and fat32
partitions can be viewed from ntfs and ntfs partitions cannot be viewed
from within fat* partitions. Probably the OP's drive was not
initialized and/or formatted.

Malke

So you are saying that XP (home or pro) installed onto a FAT partition
(16 or 32) denies XP the ability to read an NTFS partition on the same
or networked drive. At least thats what it sounds like?

John

 

[Tim Slattery]

So you are saying that XP (home or pro) installed onto a FAT partition
(16 or 32) denies XP the ability to read an NTFS partition on the same
or networked drive. At least thats what it sounds like?

That is NOT right. The XP operating system can handle FAT12 (floppy
disks), FAT16, FAT32 or NTFS partitions regardless of what file system
is used by the partition on which the OS itself resides.