Second Hard Drive in Win XP

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"Tim Culbertson" <Tim Culbertson@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I have an HP pavilion 9600 running Win XP Home. I have two CD drives and a
> Maxtor hard drive. I want to install a second Maxtor hard drive that was
> used as a win 95 startup disk and which has four partitions.
>
> I can get the PCs BIOS to recognize the second drive (listing it by make &
> model as primary slave, as I expected). Windows, however, does not
> recognize
> this drive and has not given any indication of it's existing. I have
> tried
> "add new hardware" and the disk management utility, both to no avail.
>
> How can I get Windows to recognize and access this hard drive?

Tim:
Assuming you correctly connected this second drive, most likely XP hasn't
assigned it a drive letter. Why XP does this in some cases and not others is
a mystery to me. Anyway, if that's the problem -- access the Disk Management
utility (Right-click My Computer > Manage > Computer Management > Disk
Management) and assign a drive letter.
Art