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

[Wayne]

After I installed XP Pro I can't see second drive. 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 disconnect 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 redetect second 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......

 

[Larc]

| After I installed XP Pro I can't see second drive. 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 disconnect 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 redetect second 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......

Right click on My Computer and go to Manage > Disk Management. Look for your
second HD there (should show as Disk 1 if it's set as Slave on IDE 1). Right
click on the area representing it to see if the drive needs to be "initialized."
You can also handle any needed partitioning and formatting from there.

Larc



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[NobodyMan]

After I installed XP Pro I can't see second drive. 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 disconnect 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 redetect second 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......

Wayne,

repeatedly posting your problem won't win you much sympathy or help.
It was posted at 12:40, 1:07 and 1:20. Good advice was given each
time. Stop and read the advice before reposting,
reposting,reposting....