MattE
April 15th 03, 12:24 PM
Incidentally, to add a bit of further information - the
second HD was the primary HD on my old PC and has an
installation of windows me on, but this was not stopping
XP from recognising it before I had to do the reinstall...
and I've tested the drive, its not corrupted and still
holds the data that I need to access on it...
>-----Original Message-----
>I have windows XP installed on my pc - with 2 hard drives
>working. I have some windows errors occurring etc, tho,
so
>decide to reinstall windows as an easy solution (sorry,
>I'm a bit new to this).
>
>I reinstall windows, and although the bios shows my 2nd
>hard drive is there, and if i go into administrative
>tools / computer management / disk management, it shows
>that i have a second disk but it is not assigned a drive
>letter. In My Computer, I only show one hard disk. I
>can't access the second disk, can't do anything with it
at
>all....
>
>Firstly I thought it was because the second disk was too
>full, (disk management was showing only 1GB of free
space)
>so I put it back in my old pc and deleted a load of
stuff -
> its a 20gb HD and now has over 5gb free - but again,
>according to administrative tools / computer management,
>its showing what it first showed us - that there's only
>just over 1GB spare... and rescanning won't update etc...
>
>Anyone seen this before, or have a clue why its happened?
>Possible solutions, other than re-installing windows yet
>again?
>
>All I can think of is that when I first installed XP, I
>did it with only one HD installed and put the HD in
>afterwards. Should I do the same again?
>
>Thanks for any help that could be offered...
>
>.
>
second HD was the primary HD on my old PC and has an
installation of windows me on, but this was not stopping
XP from recognising it before I had to do the reinstall...
and I've tested the drive, its not corrupted and still
holds the data that I need to access on it...
>-----Original Message-----
>I have windows XP installed on my pc - with 2 hard drives
>working. I have some windows errors occurring etc, tho,
so
>decide to reinstall windows as an easy solution (sorry,
>I'm a bit new to this).
>
>I reinstall windows, and although the bios shows my 2nd
>hard drive is there, and if i go into administrative
>tools / computer management / disk management, it shows
>that i have a second disk but it is not assigned a drive
>letter. In My Computer, I only show one hard disk. I
>can't access the second disk, can't do anything with it
at
>all....
>
>Firstly I thought it was because the second disk was too
>full, (disk management was showing only 1GB of free
space)
>so I put it back in my old pc and deleted a load of
stuff -
> its a 20gb HD and now has over 5gb free - but again,
>according to administrative tools / computer management,
>its showing what it first showed us - that there's only
>just over 1GB spare... and rescanning won't update etc...
>
>Anyone seen this before, or have a clue why its happened?
>Possible solutions, other than re-installing windows yet
>again?
>
>All I can think of is that when I first installed XP, I
>did it with only one HD installed and put the HD in
>afterwards. Should I do the same again?
>
>Thanks for any help that could be offered...
>
>.
>