access spare drive after reinstall

[Larry]

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I had to format my C and reinstall XP. After I finally got XP reloaded I can not see the old spare D: drive. I am using NTFS, and the drive shows in device manager as the correct type drive, but it does not show in "my computer" at all.
Both drive are in BIOS. I really need to get this drive back, I have a number of large files on it that I did not feel I could back up to CD. I have tried removing & reinstalling, it just finds the same old drive. I think it has something to do with the type file system but don't know what to do!

larry

 

[peter]

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does it show under
control panel/administrative tools/computer management/disk management
????
peter
"Larry" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news09F743D-BD46-47E9-B7B6-2392B4ABBE8A@microsoft.com...
> I had to format my C and reinstall XP. After I finally got XP reloaded I
can not see the old spare D: drive. I am using NTFS, and the drive shows in
device manager as the correct type drive, but it does not show in "my computer"
at all.
> Both drive are in BIOS. I really need to get this drive back, I have a number
of large files on it that I did not feel I could back up to CD. I have tried
removing & reinstalling, it just finds the same old drive. I think it has
something to do with the type file system but don't know what to do!
>
> larry