Additional Hard drives not available

[Ed Nachman]

All drives were installed on W2K. I originally wanted to
be able to boot to either W2k or XP Home Editon. XP Setup
wouldn't allow me to do this. So I let it partition my C:
drive, lose all files and load the OS. They hasn't been
any physical changes on the PC. XP doesn't appear to want
to assign drive designations except to the C: drive. The
only options for the two HD's are "Partition" and "Help"
and neither is a choice as far as I'm concerned. It seems
that XP wants to partition and lose all my files or do
nothing. Sour grapes are slowly evolving. Any help is
appreciated by the public since Microsoft is at a loss in
backing up its own products by having a useless chain of
search options that can't answer my questions other than
charging me for advice that would help the OS. Believe
me, I've tried. RANT STOP!!!!
>-----Original Message-----
>Hi,
>
>How are the additional drives connected to your
>motherboard? I assume you have a HD that is designated C
>for your master drive, D for your CDRom, and two more
>drives for E and F. So one must be a Primary Slave and
the
>other a Secondary Slave. Did you jumped them correctly
as
>Slave drives? Please post more details on your
>installation of the additional drives.
>
>Sleepless
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I just went from W2K to XP Home Edition. The system
sees
>>my Drives formerly known as "E:" and "F:" but they are
not
>>shown in Windows Explorer. They are seen in Disk
>>Management but without driver letters. When I right
click
>>on either of these drives, the only options
>>are "Partition" and "Help" I saved a lot of informtion
>>on these drives prior to loading XP Home Edition.
>>.
>>
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