Hard Drive not recognized in My Computer

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Rich B

I recently did a clean install of Windows XP Home SP2 with 2 hard drives.
The new installation is on the previous slave drive and the new slave drive
is the old primary drive. Both drives are jumpered as "cable select",
however the new slave does not show up in "My Computer", but does show in
"Disk Management". It has no drive letter, but is listed as Disk 2 and the
partition is NTFS Healthy Active. When I reverse the drives, they both show
up, primary as C and slave as D.

I don't want to delete the partition of the new slave yet as I want to make
sure all of the information I need is copied over. I have done this before
with no similar problem, but cannot figure out what the issue is here.

Thanks for any help.
 
Have you tried to assign it a drive letter.
Also try changing the jumpers to Master and Slave.

JS
 
Thanks for the response

When I right click on the drive in disk management, the only choice is
"delete partition". I also tried from a command prompt using diskpart, but
whne I use list volume, the drive is not listed.

Any other ideas?
 
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