Additional Hard Drive

[Michael McGrath]

I have re[laced a Zip drive with a second hard drive, which
whilst it shows as on the system, does not have a drive
letter and cannot be accessed.

 

[Andy]

Have you gone into Administrative Tools -> Computer
Management -> Disk Management and then converted it to a
basic disk and then formatted it? (you can also change
the drive letters here)

Also, did you set the jumpers to slave and master?

 

[AndyT]

I assume the jumpers are set to master/slave, so
go 'Start -> Control Panel - > Administrative Tools ->
Computer Management -> Disk Management' and check that
your new drive is set to 'basic disk' and then format.
You can also change your drive letters here.

 

[Allan C]

I have just come to this group. I added a second drive from my previous
computer to this new Sony Vaio. This drive had been a WIN2000 slave in a
dual boot configuration with WIN98. This drive was a FAT partition. I
moved that drive to the new Sony XP computer and installed XP Pro
expecting it to make a dual boot system with WIN XP. It didn't. Disk
management says everything's fine but won't assign a drive letter. The
only option it gives is to format the drive.

This drive had had the jumper shunt on Cable Select but I moved it to
Slave according to Sony's instructions for adding a new drive

I don't want to lose the information in the drive, particularly since it
has MS Office.

---
Allan

I assume the jumpers are set to master/slave, so
go 'Start -> Control Panel - > Administrative Tools ->
Computer Management -> Disk Management' and check that
your new drive is set to 'basic disk' and then format.
You can also change your drive letters here.

-----Original Message-----
I have re[laced a Zip drive with a second hard drive, which
whilst it shows as on the system, does not have a drive
letter and cannot be accessed.
.

 

[Dave]

Visit manufacturers web site for installation software to
install it ie make it visible to operating system.