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I have 2 western digital hard drives installed on my computer through the
primary ide (cd-rom's being on the second). When I go into my computer, I
only see one of the hard drives, the one that has XP installed on it. When I
go into device manager, it shows that it recognizes both, but only the one is
shown in my computer. any way to fix this?

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Sam

 

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Has the second HDD been partitioned and formated?

 

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Sam Huff wrote:
> *I have 2 western digital hard drives installed on my computer
> through the
> primary ide (cd-rom's being on the second). When I go into my
> computer, I
> only see one of the hard drives, the one that has XP installed on it.
> When I
> go into device manager, it shows that it recognizes both, but only
> the one is
> shown in my computer. any way to fix this?
>
> --
> Sam *

Maybe your second hard drive is unallocated? Have you looked here:
Settings -> Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer
Management -> Disk Management?



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"Sam Huff" <SamHuff@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>I have 2 western digital hard drives installed on my computer through the
>primary ide (cd-rom's being on the second). When I go into my computer, I
>only see one of the hard drives, the one that has XP installed on it. When I
>go into device manager, it shows that it recognizes both, but only the one is
>shown in my computer. any way to fix this?

That generally means that there are no partitions on the second disk.
"Drive letters" are assigned to partitions, not physical disks. A disk
must have at least one partition on it to be useable, that partition
can cover the entire drive if you wish. A disk may have many
partitions, each will appear in Windows Explorer with a separate
"Drive letter", and will for all intents and purposes appear to be a
separate drive.

To examine the partition structure of your disks and create partitions
on a new disk, go to Settings\Control Panel \Administrative
Tools\Computer
Management\Disk Management.

If you think that there is already data on the second disk that you
can't see, do not mess with the partitions! In that case you may need
to take it to a data recovery service to retrieve the data.

--
Tim Slattery
MS MVP(DTS)
Slattery_T@bls.gov