slave disk access

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After installing a second (slave) hard disk, it showed up as expected a hard
disk (G:) in "My Computer." I then used PC Doctor from a diskette to do a
Quick Erase of the disk contents. This worked as expected, but now the drive
has disappeared from "My Computer." It does exist: On the control Panel the
Hardware Wizard tells me that it is working properly. So does Device Manager.
The BIOS tells me that the 4 partitions are empty. How can I access theis
disk? Should it be reformatted somehow ?

BTW Other disk letters are: A- diskette, C-primary disk, D- External Iomega
ZIP drive, E-CD ROM, F-DVD Drive
 
Yde said:
After installing a second (slave) hard disk, it showed up as expected a hard
disk (G:) in "My Computer." I then used PC Doctor from a diskette to do a
Quick Erase of the disk contents. This worked as expected, but now the drive
has disappeared from "My Computer." It does exist: On the control Panel the
Hardware Wizard tells me that it is working properly. So does Device Manager.
The BIOS tells me that the 4 partitions are empty. How can I access theis
disk? Should it be reformatted somehow ?

BTW Other disk letters are: A- diskette, C-primary disk, D- External Iomega
ZIP drive, E-CD ROM, F-DVD Drive
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You may need to assign drive letters in the Disk
Manager (Start / Run / diskmgr.msc).
 
My system win/XPP does not seem to have a file by name DISKMGR (or even
DSKMGR). Could you perhaps have another file in mind ??
 
Thanks for the follow-up. I'll keep the DISKMGMT.MSC file in mind, the file
looks quite handy. Before your corrected info reached me, I had worked around
the problem by downloading a file called DISKMGR for Western Digital drives
from DriverGuide.com. That worked and assigned a normal D: to the slave hard
drive.
 
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