Hard drive recognition

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Albert Gerber

Well, here I am again, another day and another problem. I have an 80 GB hard
drive in a caddy installed in my computer. The BIOS read that it is there as
it is installed with Promise Card. When I first installed the HD, windows
acknowledged it an let me partition and format the drive. Then I had a bad
install of a Linux program which partitioned it for Linux before the CD gave
out. Now WindowsXP doesn't see the drive at all. Acronis <www.acronis.com>
sees it and allows me to format and repartition it to fat32 which is what
my whole system is formatted to. My question, is there some way to nudge
Windows into seeing the drive?
Thanks folks.
Li'l Al
 
Albert Gerber said:
Well, here I am again, another day and another problem. I have an 80 GB hard
drive in a caddy installed in my computer. The BIOS read that it is there as
it is installed with Promise Card. When I first installed the HD, windows
acknowledged it an let me partition and format the drive. Then I had a bad
install of a Linux program which partitioned it for Linux before the CD gave
out. Now WindowsXP doesn't see the drive at all. Acronis <www.acronis.com>
sees it and allows me to format and repartition it to fat32 which is what
my whole system is formatted to. My question, is there some way to nudge
Windows into seeing the drive?
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Use disk management and assign it a drive letter
 
philo said:
Use disk management and assign it a drive letter
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Thanks to your help Philo and Scott, I was able to get windows to find the
hard disk. First Philo, WinSP didn't recognize the HDD so it didn't show up
in Disc Management. Had it been there I could have Fdisked and formated it.
I started out trying your suggestion, Scott, but didn't have a Win98 boot
disk at hand that had fdisk on it. I went to<www.bootdisk.com> and
downloaded a copy but before I used it I tried Acronis again. When one pays
$49.99 USD one uses it as much as possible. I deleted the partitions and
repartitioned with two 37 GB partitions, reformated the first partition
while leaving the second for installing a Linux O/S when It gets here by
mail. WinXP now sees it.

Li'l Al
 
Albert Gerber said:
Thanks to your help Philo and Scott, I was able to get windows to find the
hard disk. First Philo, WinSP didn't recognize the HDD so it didn't show
up in Disc Management. Had it been there I could have Fdisked and formated
it. I started out trying your suggestion, Scott, but didn't have a Win98
boot disk at hand that had fdisk on it. I went to<www.bootdisk.com> and
downloaded a copy but before I used it I tried Acronis again. When one
pays $49.99 USD one uses it as much as possible. I deleted the partitions
and repartitioned with two 37 GB partitions, reformated the first
partition while leaving the second for installing a Linux O/S when It gets
here by mail. WinXP now sees it.

Li'l Al
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Don't use FDISK if you intend to install XP. The XP CD has the Diskpart tool
which can be run from the Recovery Console. See How To Partition at this
link http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm

Harry Ohrn - MS MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca
 
When one
pays $49.99 USD one uses it as much as possible. I deleted the
partitions and repartitioned with two 37 GB partitions, reformated the
first partition while leaving the second for installing a Linux O/S when
It gets here by mail. WinXP now sees it.

Li'l Al
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Don't use FDISK if you intend to install XP. The XP CD has the Diskpart
tool which can be run from the Recovery Console. See How To Partition at
this link http://www.webtree.ca/windowsxp/repair_xp.htm

Harry Ohrn - MS MVP [Shell/User]
www.webtree.ca
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Thanks for the heads-up, Harry. I don't plan on putting a second copy of
WinXP on this computer as I'm not interested in problems with Microsoft. I
will transfer a copy of C: drive to the new HDD for safe keeping as the
caddy makes it a portable drive. This will allow me to save it a backup for
the day that the old drive gives up the ghost. By the way, I have your web
site listed in my favorites, I just didn't look at it until you pointed it
out. Thanks again.

Li'l Al
 
By the way, I have your web
site listed in my favorites, I just didn't look at it until you pointed it
out. Thanks again.
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Harry's site has been in my favorites... well, for years. Besides good
Windows info, I like reviewing his software recommendations.
 
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