Second Physical Hard Drive!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Wayne]

After I installed XP Pro I can't see second drie. When I
boot up and go into BIOS I see second drive. When I get
into windows it doesn't see second drive. So I shut down
and diconnect second drive and go into BIOS and detect
hard drives and go back into windows with one drive and
shut down again and reconnect second drive and go back
into BIOS to redect sound drive and when I boot up it
shows both drives and when I get into windows it tells me
it has new hardware but when I go into my computer it
only shows the one drive not the two physical drives.
Please help......

 

[Cyberbear]

After I installed XP Pro I can't see second drie. When I
boot up and go into BIOS I see second drive. When I get
into windows it doesn't see second drive. So I shut down
and diconnect second drive and go into BIOS and detect
hard drives and go back into windows with one drive and
shut down again and reconnect second drive and go back
into BIOS to redect sound drive and when I boot up it
shows both drives and when I get into windows it tells me
it has new hardware but when I go into my computer it
only shows the one drive not the two physical drives.
Please help......

Go into Administrative Tools, Disk Management. You will probably have to
create a partition on the new drive, and then format the drive. After that
it should show up in Windows as a new drive in Explorer.

HTH

 

[Wayne]

I had already partition and formatted it and it has info
on it. It's not a new drive. When I had 98/98 SE, XP Home
upgrade I could see both drives. Nowq I can't. I don't
want to lose the info I have on it. If it comes to that I
will. When I installed windows xp it saw both drives. I
appreciate your help.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I had already partition and formatted it and it has info
on it. It's not a new drive. When I had 98/98 SE, XP Home
upgrade I could see both drives. Nowq I can't. I don't
want to lose the info I have on it. If it comes to that I
will.

Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer Management, select Disk
Management and look lower right for the graphic of the drive. If the
partition entries there have become 'Healthy (Unknown) what has happened
is that they have become marked as hidden. This is done on restore by
some imaging software - I understand Drive Image does,a nd also provides
an 'unhide' facility. Otherwise partitions can be unhidden by Partition
Magic, or by BootIT NG, from http://www.BootitNG.com ($35 shareware - 30
day full functional trial)