HDD gone missing

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I recently installed a new copy of xp pro. So far I've really only added
Norton Systemworks and initially all was ok.

Now it seems my system cant find my secondary HDD which was there and
working ok a day or two ago (it had my backups and a game and mpegs etc), I
had copied to and from it with no problems. Now it's dissapeared from
explorer, norton & the computer management screen. I've restarted quite a
bit but no luck.

I dont know if it was visable at start up before, but when it says
'detecting ide drives...' it lists my HDD1, DVD & CD drives but not my HDD2.

HDD1 was given drive letters C & D
HDD2 E & F

If it was a hardware problem wouldn't the drive still show?
 
Bodmass said:
I recently installed a new copy of xp pro. So far I've really only added
Norton Systemworks and initially all was ok.

Now it seems my system cant find my secondary HDD which was there and
working ok a day or two ago (it had my backups and a game and mpegs etc),
I
had copied to and from it with no problems. Now it's dissapeared from
explorer, norton & the computer management screen. I've restarted quite a
bit but no luck.

I dont know if it was visable at start up before, but when it says
'detecting ide drives...' it lists my HDD1, DVD & CD drives but not my
HDD2.

HDD1 was given drive letters C & D
HDD2 E & F

If it was a hardware problem wouldn't the drive still show?
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Not necessarily. It would depend on the hardware fault!



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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!
 
I dont know if it was visable at start up before, but when it says
'detecting ide drives...' it lists my HDD1, DVD & CD drives but not my HDD2.
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ATA/IDE drives? BIOS needs to see that drive for Windows to use it. Things
to try: Check cable connections to drive and motherboard. Try a new cable.
Enter BIOS setup and make the necessary choices to repeat auto-detect for
the drive.

Note: Added a drive to my brother's new Dell desktop a few years ago. Ran
into a BIOS setting I hadn't seen before: Audit Mode. This had to be
enabled to have the configuration information for any *new* drives
retained. Once the drive was detected (including an exit and boot to
operating system where it was also detected), the audit mode could be
disabled again.
 
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