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I have a asus P5S MX SE motherboard with windows xp 2gb ram 160 gb sata hard drive, now my brother give me his 500gb seagate sata hard drive when i installed it in my computer the two hard drives was detected in bios and when i check it on windows the 500gb sata hdd was not in there, i ask my brother if it is working then he told it was in good condition he even has his files on it, And then I brought that 500gb hdd in my office and try to connect it in my unit at office it was detected and i even saw the old files on it, then i decided to reformat it and deleted the partitions, Then when i got home, i installed it again in my computer again it was detected in bios but it did not showed up in windos, i know that it will not show up in my computer coz i've deleted the partitions i checked it in disk management but sad to say only the 160gb sata hdd showed up.... 
pls help me with this one...
btw i already upgraded my xp sp2 to sp3.... pls help
Thanks in advance!!!
| daship wrote : Disk management, and make it active and assign it a letter. |
I've already tried and go to disk management but it does'nt show on disk management only my 160gb is showing on the disk management...
thanks for the time..
any other suggestion?0
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