installing another hard drive

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I have a Windows 2000 Pro system with a 40 Gig drive as C: I installed another 20 Gig hard drive and it does not show up in My Computer as another hard drive. Only C:(hard drive), A:(3 1/2 floppy), D:(Compact Disc), & Control Panel shows up in My Computer. In System Properties, under Hardware, under Device Manager, under +Disk drives --> shows two disk drives: the first one is the 20 Gig hard drive, and second is the 40 Gig hard drive and both are working fine with no conflicts. I can't access the 20 Gig hard drive.
 
Have you prepaired the disk?
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David

Don said:
I have a Windows 2000 Pro system with a 40 Gig drive as C: I installed
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another 20 Gig hard drive and it does not show up in My Computer as another
hard drive. Only C:(hard drive), A:(3 1/2 floppy), D:(Compact Disc), &
Control Panel shows up in My Computer. In System Properties, under
Hardware, under Device Manager, under +Disk drives --> shows two disk
drives: the first one is the 20 Gig hard drive, and second is the 40 Gig
hard drive and both are working fine with no conflicts. I can't access the
20 Gig hard drive.
 
Have you prepaired the disk?
see help, computer management
David


another 20 Gig hard drive and it does not show up in My Computer as another
hard drive. Only C:(hard drive), A:(3 1/2 floppy), D:(Compact Disc), &
Control Panel shows up in My Computer. In System Properties, under
Hardware, under Device Manager, under +Disk drives --> shows two disk
drives: the first one is the 20 Gig hard drive, and second is the 40 Gig
hard drive and both are working fine with no conflicts. I can't access the
20 Gig hard drive.
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Partition and format the 20GB drive (choose NTFS for the file system.) This
will become D:, and the CD will become E:. You change the drive letters if
you want, but IMO there's no advantage to that.

HTH&GL.
 
Partitioning the new drive will let it show up in My Computer with a drive letter. Partitioning and
formatting will let it show up in My Computer AND be usable.

I have a Windows 2000 Pro system with a 40 Gig drive as C: I installed another 20 Gig hard drive and it does not show up in My Computer as another
Click to expand...
hard drive. Only C:(hard drive), A:(3 1/2 floppy), D:(Compact Disc), & Control Panel shows up in
My Computer. In System Properties, under Hardware, under Device Manager, under +Disk drives -->
shows two disk drives: the first one is the 20 Gig hard drive, and second is the 40 Gig hard drive
and both are working fine with no conflicts. I can't access the 20 Gig hard drive.

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