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Missing Hard Drive after motherboard upgrade



 
 
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Old April 14th 03, 09:19 PM
Dave
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Default 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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Old April 14th 03, 09:25 PM
Jupiter Jones
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Default Missing Hard Drive after motherboard upgrade

Dave;
Try Disk Management:
http://support.microsoft.com/default...en-us%3b309000

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"Dave" wrote in message
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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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