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Missing Hard Drive after motherboard upgrade
I upgraded my motherboard / cpu and added a new hard
drive. XP installed onto my new hard drive as it couldn't find the old one. The old hard drive is installed (now) as slave and shows up correctly in the CMOS / BIOS. It also shows up in the device manager (by model), but not in the 'my computer' I am hoping to get access to the drive without needing to format it and go from scratch. The old HD is formated in NTFS if that makes a difference, and is partitioned (though when I go into 'computer manager' it only sees one partition and indicates that the other is "unused space". ... and I was going to try to select the 'change leter' option, but it is greyed out. I know that I have heard similar issues in the past, but can't seem to find anything out there that helps. |
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Missing Hard Drive after motherboard upgrade
Dave;
Try Disk Management: http://support.microsoft.com/default...en-us%3b309000 -- Jupiter Jones An easier way to read newsgroup messages: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/p...oups/setup.asp Please respond to newsgroup only for everyone's benefit. "Dave" wrote in message ... I upgraded my motherboard / cpu and added a new hard drive. XP installed onto my new hard drive as it couldn't find the old one. The old hard drive is installed (now) as slave and shows up correctly in the CMOS / BIOS. It also shows up in the device manager (by model), but not in the 'my computer' I am hoping to get access to the drive without needing to format it and go from scratch. The old HD is formated in NTFS if that makes a difference, and is partitioned (though when I go into 'computer manager' it only sees one partition and indicates that the other is "unused space". ... and I was going to try to select the 'change leter' option, but it is greyed out. I know that I have heard similar issues in the past, but can't seem to find anything out there that helps. |
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