second hard drive

[Guest]

I have two hard drives. My BIOS picks them both up. Shows the correct size,
manfactur and such. Windows XP does no show the second hard drive.

What procedure do I have to do in order that XP picks up the second hard
drive.

Tks

 

[Plato]

I have two hard drives. My BIOS picks them both up. Shows the correct size,
manfactur and such. Windows XP does no show the second hard drive.

What procedure do I have to do in order that XP picks up the second hard
drive.

Is the second hard drive partitioned?

 

[Uncle Grumpy]

I have two hard drives. My BIOS picks them both up. Shows the correct size,
manfactur and such. Windows XP does no show the second hard drive.

Has the drive been 1) partitioned, and 2) formatted?

 

[Guest]

your talking about the second i am sure, and no to both. Can't get to it to
format it. How would or could that be done now ?????

 

[M.I.5¾]

your talking about the second i am sure, and no to both. Can't get to it
to
format it. How would or could that be done now ?????

Right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Manage'. Select the 'Disk
Management' from the menu that appears. A box shold open showing all your
disk drives and partitions. Right click in the grey box at the left hand
side representing your disk drive and select 'Initialise' from the menu.

Now you can right click in the space to the right and select 'Create
Partition'. A box will open giving you choices as to size, type etc.

 

[Detlev Dreyer]

your talking about the second i am sure, and no to both. Can't get to
it to format it. How would or could that be done now ?

"How to partition and format a hard disk in Windows XP"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348/en-us

 

[Lil' Dave]

If visible in disk management, XP has "picked up" the second hard drive. To
be visible in windows explorer, the hard drive has to be partitioned and
formatted. The process of partitioning also formats the partition in disk
management of XP.

Be aware that:
FAT32 partitions are limited to 32GB in size in XP disk management partition
creation.
NTFS partitions use file security. May not be accessible to other users,
OR, if the hard drive is moved, to any other user on another PC. FAT32 has
no file security aspect.
Dave

 

[Guest]

Lil'l Dave,

You hit it right on the mark. Thanks so much. I now have access to my
second hard drive. Never too old to learn huh.

Do you know anything about why I can not play vidios, shot clips like on
Weather.Com? I have the latest real player and media player, but when I
click on the video, it goes to the first page and then hangs up. An
suggestions.

Thanks Again

Dale