Millard
December 9th 03, 02:25 PM
>-----Original Message-----
>I recently had my motherboard, CPU and Video Card
replaced
>which mandated a reinstallation of Windows XP Homne
>Edition. I have two hard drives in my system - a Maxtor
60
>gig and a Western Digital 3.3 gig, which is the slave
>drive.
>
>When I boot up, the BIOS recognizes both drives, but I
>cannot view the slave drive in My Computer. My main drive
>is partitioned, and all partitions moved up by one letter
>(the slave was originally the D drive.)
>
>I can see both drives in Device Manager. When I look in
>the Disk Management app, I see the main drive designated
>as Disk 0, and the slave is present, and designated as
>Disk 1, but I cannot assign a drive letter to it.
>
>How can I get my slave drive back?
>.
>Has your slave drive been formatted, partitioned, and
initialized? Click on disk-1 and right click it. it will
take into properties. There you will be able to do that.
The tools tab at the top of the page explains itself.
After this is done, the window in disk mgmt for disk-1
should show HEALTHY. It is now ready to be written to.
>I recently had my motherboard, CPU and Video Card
replaced
>which mandated a reinstallation of Windows XP Homne
>Edition. I have two hard drives in my system - a Maxtor
60
>gig and a Western Digital 3.3 gig, which is the slave
>drive.
>
>When I boot up, the BIOS recognizes both drives, but I
>cannot view the slave drive in My Computer. My main drive
>is partitioned, and all partitions moved up by one letter
>(the slave was originally the D drive.)
>
>I can see both drives in Device Manager. When I look in
>the Disk Management app, I see the main drive designated
>as Disk 0, and the slave is present, and designated as
>Disk 1, but I cannot assign a drive letter to it.
>
>How can I get my slave drive back?
>.
>Has your slave drive been formatted, partitioned, and
initialized? Click on disk-1 and right click it. it will
take into properties. There you will be able to do that.
The tools tab at the top of the page explains itself.
After this is done, the window in disk mgmt for disk-1
should show HEALTHY. It is now ready to be written to.