Can't acces HDD

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  1. john04

    john04 Member

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    I just did a fresh installation of WINXP SP2, then plugged in the other HD (seagate)-previously used so formated w/data. Device Manager and Disk Management detects the drive (healthy Active NTFS, but does not have a drive letter, only a label). For some reason the drive does not appear in 'My Computer' I understand that DiscWizard would fix this problem, but requires reformating the drive, but then I would lose 60gb of data???????? what's a person to do, any help would be greatly appreciated. thnks
     
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    does the hard drive appear in your device manager?
     
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    Assign a drive letter to the drive.
     
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    the drive in detected in both device manager and disk management.
    Disk managemnt won't let me assign a drive letter the only delete partition option is available.
     
    john04, Nov 23, 2005
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    Where do you have that other drive plugged into the motherboard? Is it set to master or to slave?
     
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    A couple possibilities where I have seen this problem before

    1) Both hard drives are set to active. Setting a hard drive to active means you are making it bootable. If it isn't your boot drive it doesn't need to be set to active. I have seen Windows get confused before with multiple hard drives set to active

    2) Raid configuration issue - Windows see the 2nd drive as part of a RAID set instead of a standalone drive. Some motherboards allow you to disable RAID in the BIOS, so if you aren't using it you really don't need it enabled
     
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