2nd hard drive

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Tricky problem here: I have a Dell Dimension 4100 running
Windows2000. That system ran two hard drives: Maxtor
20GB (Master) and an IBM Deskstar 40GB (Slave).
Recently, the primary hard drive (Maxtor) started having
problems so I purchased a new Deskstar 80GB to put in its
place. My problem is centered around the old slave drive
(40GB deskstar). I want to keep that drive as the slave
and not lose the data on it. The hardware seems to work:
jumpers set correctly, Bios sees both drives. Also,
Win2000 running on the new drive works fine and the
Windows device manager sees both drives. However, I
cannot see or access the slave drive in Windows explorer,
DOS or in my apps. (I can see c:Master drive, d:DVD,
e:CD, but no slave drive letter). Any suggestions would
be greatly appreciated.
 
Try reactivating the dynamic disk by right mouse clicking and choosing
that option. Or try import foreign disk.
 
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Tricky problem here: I have a Dell Dimension 4100 running
Windows2000. That system ran two hard drives: Maxtor
20GB (Master) and an IBM Deskstar 40GB (Slave).
Recently, the primary hard drive (Maxtor) started having
problems so I purchased a new Deskstar 80GB to put in its
place. My problem is centered around the old slave drive
(40GB deskstar). I want to keep that drive as the slave
and not lose the data on it. The hardware seems to work:
jumpers set correctly, Bios sees both drives. Also,
Win2000 running on the new drive works fine and the
Windows device manager sees both drives. However, I
cannot see or access the slave drive in Windows explorer,
DOS or in my apps. (I can see c:Master drive, d:DVD,
e:CD, but no slave drive letter). Any suggestions would
be greatly appreciated.
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I don't know if the previous reply solved your problem, but
I posted a very similar problem yesterday (FireWire/hard
drive problem) but I have now solved it. I have TweakUI
which I don't normally use but wanting to do something with
it today I discovered a 'my computer' tab. This contains a
list of drives you want shown/not shown in 'my computer'.
On checking the new drives they immediately showed up in
'my computer' and are ready to use.

Hope this helps you,

Tony
 
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