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Windows doens't recongize 2nd SATA hard drive
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Windows XP service pack2 2 SATA Western Digital 500G hard drives Samsung SATA DVD I just put together my new computer loaded Windows XP and it seems to run well except for one problem. Windows only sees the C: drive even though I have two 500G hard drives. I want the second drive for data storage. I'm not trying to use RAID. All the BIOS settings are defaults. The BIOS sees both hard drives as well as the SATA DVD. The BIOS identifies them as WD 500G. The DVD player works fine and I booted with it to the Windows CD and loaded windows. My C: drive is connected to SATA 1, the DVD drive to SATA 2 and I have tried the second hard drive on both SATA 3 and 5. What should I do to trouble shoot this. Could it be a hard drive faulure even though the BIOS identifes the drive? David |
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Windows doens't recongize 2nd SATA hard drive
David wrote:
P5B Delux Windows XP service pack2 2 SATA Western Digital 500G hard drives Samsung SATA DVD I just put together my new computer loaded Windows XP and it seems to run well except for one problem. Windows only sees the C: drive even though I have two 500G hard drives. I want the second drive for data storage. I'm not trying to use RAID. All the BIOS settings are defaults. The BIOS sees both hard drives as well as the SATA DVD. The BIOS identifies them as WD 500G. The DVD player works fine and I booted with it to the Windows CD and loaded windows. My C: drive is connected to SATA 1, the DVD drive to SATA 2 and I have tried the second hard drive on both SATA 3 and 5. What should I do to trouble shoot this. Could it be a hard drive faulure even though the BIOS identifes the drive? David Did you init the 2nd HD? It won't show under Winduhs until you do. You must partition the HD, and then create a filesystem in the (or each) part. XP's Help will guide you. -- Cheers, Bob |
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Windows doens't recongize 2nd SATA hard drive
On Aug 23, 12:22 am, David
m wrote: P5B Delux Windows XP service pack2 2 SATA Western Digital 500G hard drives Samsung SATA DVD I just put together my new computer loaded Windows XP and it seems to run well except for one problem. Windows only sees the C: drive even though I have two 500G hard drives. I want the second drive for data storage. I'm not trying to use RAID. All the BIOS settings are defaults. The BIOS sees both hard drives as well as the SATA DVD. The BIOS identifies them as WD 500G. The DVD player works fine and I booted with it to the Windows CD and loaded windows. My C: drive is connected to SATA 1, the DVD drive to SATA 2 and I have tried the second hard drive on both SATA 3 and 5. What should I do to trouble shoot this. Could it be a hard drive faulure even though the BIOS identifes the drive? David When you say "Windows sees only the C: drive" are you saying you don't see it in Windows Explorer, or are you saying you also don't see it in Computer Management? Have you tried this? 1) Right click on My Computer 2) Click on Manage 3) Double-click Disk Management Does your drive show up there? If it does, you probably need to partition it and then format it. You can make your 500 gigabyte file one big partition or you can split it into more than one. If you already know all this, I apologize -- and I don't know what your problem might be. -- Bill Anderson I am the Mighty Favog |
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Windows doens't recongize 2nd SATA hard drive
Thanks. Pretty stupid of me on second thought. I thought the Windows
installation would init the drive. David On Thu, 23 Aug 2007 07:29:08 -0700, The Mighty Favog wrote: On Aug 23, 12:22 am, David wrote: P5B Delux Windows XP service pack2 2 SATA Western Digital 500G hard drives Samsung SATA DVD I just put together my new computer loaded Windows XP and it seems to run well except for one problem. Windows only sees the C: drive even though I have two 500G hard drives. I want the second drive for data storage. I'm not trying to use RAID. All the BIOS settings are defaults. The BIOS sees both hard drives as well as the SATA DVD. The BIOS identifies them as WD 500G. The DVD player works fine and I booted with it to the Windows CD and loaded windows. My C: drive is connected to SATA 1, the DVD drive to SATA 2 and I have tried the second hard drive on both SATA 3 and 5. What should I do to trouble shoot this. Could it be a hard drive faulure even though the BIOS identifes the drive? David When you say "Windows sees only the C: drive" are you saying you don't see it in Windows Explorer, or are you saying you also don't see it in Computer Management? Have you tried this? 1) Right click on My Computer 2) Click on Manage 3) Double-click Disk Management Does your drive show up there? If it does, you probably need to partition it and then format it. You can make your 500 gigabyte file one big partition or you can split it into more than one. If you already know all this, I apologize -- and I don't know what your problem might be. |
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