2nd Hard drive hidden in my computer

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installed old hard drive from old gateway computer (win 98) to a new dell
computer (XP) as a second drive - to be able to read & copy old data files,
and later reformat for more storage.

second drive seen in "computer management/storage" as healthy, active, basic
fat32 but shows no drive letter. "My computer" does not see it at all.

tried jumpers in both cable select and master/slave. new drive is on the end
of the cable as it should be. device manager properties reports device
working properly.

have done this in the past of a couple of other systems and worked with no
problem. any ideas as to the cause???
 
Ron, did you rt click on the drive in Disk Management and see if you could
assign a drive letter to it.
 
I have the same problem , installed xp from 2k but it dont show my 2nd
120gig drive , Its conected corectly and worked fine on win2k
I cant give it a drive numder coz its not shown all i get in manager is
disk0 in 2 partions (C and D,works fine) and the secon drive shows up
as follow Disk1-dynamic-foriegen , under properties it shows up as
enabled but no other data except its id number IC35letc . help, i need
that data , thanks
 
the change letter assignment section is greyed out - windows will not allow
a letter to be assigned.
Ron
 
I had the same problem recently and found that the bios in some computers assign drives by the order in which the are seen by bootup... I had to attach the drive I wanted to be seen as my last HD as the secondary on the cable with my dvd or cd cable in order for the drive letter to be assigned. After that I was able to put it back on the HD cable where I wanted it ..Then use disc management to assign it the letter I wished for it. Hope this helps.
 
installed old hard drive from old gateway computer (win 98) to a new dell
computer (XP) as a second drive - to be able to read & copy old data files,
and later reformat for more storage.

second drive seen in "computer management/storage" as healthy, active, basic
fat32 but shows no drive letter. "My computer" does not see it at all.

tried jumpers in both cable select and master/slave. new drive is on the end
of the cable as it should be. device manager properties reports device
working properly.

have done this in the past of a couple of other systems and worked with no
problem. any ideas as to the cause???
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Try altering the settings in the bios for that disk only, to Large
instead of LBA. It depends on how it was setup in the original
machine.

Failing that, check that you are doing it the same way in XP as is
shown here: http://www.bay-wolf.com/setupmedbay.htm

Andy.
 
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