Secondary Hard Drive Not Showing Up

[mark]

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I just recently formated my computer. Beforhand, I backed
up to spare hard drive. Now that I have reinstalled
windows, and connected that back up hard drive via IDE as
a slave, the computer recognizes the new hardware, but I
cannot access it. The drive does not show up in My
Computer but Device Manager says it is working properly.
Any suggestions? Did I miss loading a driver?

Thanks,
Mark

 

[Jerry]

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First, you formatted your hard drives, not your computer.

Second, was the spare drive you backed up to formatted as NTFS and now did
you format as FAT32? If so, you can't read an NTFS drive from a FAT32 drive.

"Mark" <markpe@ksu.edu> wrote in message
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> I just recently formated my computer. Beforhand, I backed
> up to spare hard drive. Now that I have reinstalled
> windows, and connected that back up hard drive via IDE as
> a slave, the computer recognizes the new hardware, but I
> cannot access it. The drive does not show up in My
> Computer but Device Manager says it is working properly.
> Any suggestions? Did I miss loading a driver?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

Did you remember to assign it a drive letter?

Right click on My Computer and select Manage. On the following screen,
click on Disk Management. It will show up on the right hand side of the
screen and you can assign it a drive letter here.
--
Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging & Hardware)
www.coribright.com


"Mark" <markpe@ksu.edu> wrote in message
news:14cd601c44522$82a89f30$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> I just recently formated my computer. Beforhand, I backed
> up to spare hard drive. Now that I have reinstalled
> windows, and connected that back up hard drive via IDE as
> a slave, the computer recognizes the new hardware, but I
> cannot access it. The drive does not show up in My
> Computer but Device Manager says it is working properly.
> Any suggestions? Did I miss loading a driver?
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

 

[Rob]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

HI,

Right click My computer, click Manage, click Disk
Management.
In the lower right pane, you can see Disk 0 and Disk 1.
Disk 1 is the new slave drive. Right click on it and
select initialize drive, click OK.
Right click on the drive volume and select format and
partition the drive. You can format it to one single NTFS
drive or format it to several partitions with different
volume sizes. (select default cluster size, i.e. 4 KB)
If you format it to FAT32, the largest size of the
partition is limited to 32GB.
You can also re-assign the drive letters afterwards.
(right click on the partition and change the drive letter)

>-----Original Message-----
>Did you remember to assign it a drive letter?
>
>Right click on My Computer and select Manage. On the
following screen,
>click on Disk Management. It will show up on the right
hand side of the
>screen and you can assign it a drive letter here.
>--
>Cari (MS-MVP Windows Client - Printing, Imaging &
Hardware)
>www.coribright.com
>
>
>"Mark" <markpe@ksu.edu> wrote in message
>news:14cd601c44522$82a89f30$a101280a@phx.gbl...
>> I just recently formated my computer. Beforhand, I
backed
>> up to spare hard drive. Now that I have reinstalled
>> windows, and connected that back up hard drive via IDE
as
>> a slave, the computer recognizes the new hardware, but
I
>> cannot access it. The drive does not show up in My
>> Computer but Device Manager says it is working
properly.
>> Any suggestions? Did I miss loading a driver?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Mark
>
>
>.
>

 

[JustMe]

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You don't read an NTFS drive from a FAT32 drive, it's the OS that does the
reading and it would make no difference whether either drive was one file
system or the other.

"Jerry" <NoSpamChiefZeke@MSN.com> wrote in message
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> First, you formatted your hard drives, not your computer.
>
> Second, was the spare drive you backed up to formatted as NTFS and now did
> you format as FAT32? If so, you can't read an NTFS drive from a FAT32
drive.
>
> "Mark" <markpe@ksu.edu> wrote in message
> news:14cd601c44522$82a89f30$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> > I just recently formated my computer. Beforhand, I backed
> > up to spare hard drive. Now that I have reinstalled
> > windows, and connected that back up hard drive via IDE as
> > a slave, the computer recognizes the new hardware, but I
> > cannot access it. The drive does not show up in My
> > Computer but Device Manager says it is working properly.
> > Any suggestions? Did I miss loading a driver?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Mark
>
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware (More info?)

WOW Cari, i been bashing my brains out tring to figure this one out, and you solution worked.
IT WORKED !!!!

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