XP not seeing all hard drives

[Guest]

Hi,

I have a Maxtor ATA-100 card with four additional drives connected (total of
6 drives including C and D ) which are seen during the boot sequence but are
only two are listed ( G and H )when using windows explorer. The device
manager sees the drives and tells me they are working properly and the
drivers have all been updated for each hard drive. I've reinstalled the ATA
card but same problem remains. The drives range in size from 40Gb to 80Gb and
all work OK.
Is there a setting somewhere in Windows that I'm missing thats causing this
or maybe something else going on?

TIA

 

[DL]

Did they ever work, in this installation?
If new are they formatted?
What does disk management show?

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Hi,

I have a Maxtor ATA-100 card with four additional drives connected (total of
6 drives including C and D ) which are seen during the boot sequence but are
only two are listed ( G and H )when using windows explorer. The device
manager sees the drives and tells me they are working properly and the
drivers have all been updated for each hard drive. I've reinstalled the ATA
card but same problem remains. The drives range in size from 40Gb to 80Gb and
all work OK.
Is there a setting somewhere in Windows that I'm missing thats causing this
or maybe something else going on?

If the drive manager sees them but not Explorer that suggests they may
not be formatted or missing a drive letter.

 

[Guest]

Hi,

I have a Maxtor ATA-100 card with four additional drives connected (total of
6 drives including C and D ) which are seen during the boot sequence but are
only two are listed ( G and H )when using windows explorer. The device
manager sees the drives and tells me they are working properly and the
drivers have all been updated for each hard drive. I've reinstalled the ATA
card but same problem remains. The drives range in size from 40Gb to 80Gb and
all work OK.
Is there a setting somewhere in Windows that I'm missing thats causing this
or maybe something else going on?

If these are new disks, see the help topic in Disk management:
"Initialize new disk".
After doing this procedure, you will be able to create partitions and so on.

--PA