No Volume Letter Assigned to 2nd Hard Drive

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Bill Sheck

I bought a new computer with Windows/XP Home Edition and
installed the hard drive from my old computer. Its a
Maxtor 91190D7 11G drive. XP Device Manager acknowledges
the device (and all the correct parameters) but does not
assign a drive letter/volume to it thus I cannot access
it. I've set the jumpers according to the Maxtor web
site but no luck. Any help?
 
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The hard drive cannot appear in Windows Explorer or My Computer
until it has been partitioned and formatted. Right-click My Computer
Manage > Disk Management. Create and format partition(s) on the
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second hard drive as desired.


Bruce Chambers

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what if you have a drive, 20GB in my case, that isn't
recognized by Computer Manager and Disk Management, but
is recognized by the BIOS. Then what does one do?

THanks
 
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Greetings --

The hard drive cannot appear in Windows Explorer or My Computer
until it has been partitioned and formatted. Right- click My Computer (s) on the
second hard drive as desired.


Bruce Chambers

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But won't that overwrite all the data on the hard
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drive? I probably wasn't as clear as I could have been.
I installed the hard drive from my old computer as a
second drive so I could copy over some larger files. I
would like not to reformat.
 
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