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XP does not recognise my second hard disk
My PC has two hard disks - a 20 GB master and a 40GB slave, and is set up
to dual boot with Windows 98SE and XP installed in separate partitions on the 20GB hard disk. While 98SE recognises both installed hard disks, XP will only recognise the 20 GB master disk. Is there anything I missed when installing XP?Thanks for any help or advice you can give me. Stanley |
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Try right clicking on "My Computer" than chose "Manage" than chose "Disk
Management" on the left (in XP). Now do you see both of your hdd's listed? If so what is the "type" and "status?" I do not reccomend using 98 if you have xp. 98 does not support NTFS which is a much faster and more secure FS. You can convert your Fat into NTFS through the command prompt. Looks like im getting away form the main point. Let me know what is the type and its status? Try right clicking on the drive you dont see and change it to active or basic, I cant remember which it is. It should not mess up your files on the hdd. Good luck and reply here, ill be looking out for it. "patti" wrote: My PC has two hard disks - a 20 GB master and a 40GB slave, and is set up to dual boot with Windows 98SE and XP installed in separate partitions on the 20GB hard disk. While 98SE recognises both installed hard disks, XP will only recognise the 20 GB master disk. Is there anything I missed when installing XP?Thanks for any help or advice you can give me. Stanley |
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Hi, Stanley.
As Jesse said, Disk Management is the tool to use. This is a new utility that first appeared in Win2K, 5 years ago. It replaces the old DOS programs FDISK and Format, plus it (re)assigns drive letters, which we did with Device Manager in Win9x/ME. Set up Disk Management to suit yourself by clicking View. I like to have the Volume List at the top and the Graphical Display at the bottom, but you can suit yourself. Click Help | Help Topics and explore; there are tons of information about hard drives and file systems here. You might need to initialize that second HD, or otherwise tweak it so that WinXP can recognize it. RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP "patti" wrote in message ... My PC has two hard disks - a 20 GB master and a 40GB slave, and is set up to dual boot with Windows 98SE and XP installed in separate partitions on the 20GB hard disk. While 98SE recognises both installed hard disks, XP will only recognise the 20 GB master disk. Is there anything I missed when installing XP?Thanks for any help or advice you can give me. Stanley |
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Hi guys, Thanks for your advice. I followed your instructions but nothing
happened. The second HD was not recognised. I also have an external 40 GB Buslink HD, and that also was not recognised on XP until it was powered up with XP running (but I did have software for that Buslink HD). I should add that there is one complication on my PC. I have a 120 MW LS120 installed which doubles as a 1.44 MB floppy drive, although it needs the same EIDE connection as any other HD. On Win 98SE, BelArc Advisor identifies it as having a floppy drive, with my master HD identified as Drive 0 and the slave HD as Drive 1. On XP, however, my master HD is Drive 0, bit it is the LS120 which is identified as Drive 1, with no mention of my 40GB slave disk. I don't understand why XP should prove to be so difficult to use. Win 95, 98, and ME gave me no trouble. I am quickly losing patience with XP. Any further suggestions would be welcome. Stan "Jesse" wrote in message ... Try right clicking on "My Computer" than chose "Manage" than chose "Disk Management" on the left (in XP). Now do you see both of your hdd's listed? If so what is the "type" and "status?" I do not reccomend using 98 if you have xp. 98 does not support NTFS which is a much faster and more secure FS. You can convert your Fat into NTFS through the command prompt. Looks like im getting away form the main point. Let me know what is the type and its status? Try right clicking on the drive you dont see and change it to active or basic, I cant remember which it is. It should not mess up your files on the hdd. Good luck and reply here, ill be looking out for it. "patti" wrote: My PC has two hard disks - a 20 GB master and a 40GB slave, and is set up to dual boot with Windows 98SE and XP installed in separate partitions on the 20GB hard disk. While 98SE recognises both installed hard disks, XP will only recognise the 20 GB master disk. Is there anything I missed when installing XP?Thanks for any help or advice you can give me. Stanley |
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