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Secondary Hard Drive
I was running two hard drives in my computer. The primary
hard drive (c:) died. I replaced it, loaded Windows ME again and the new drive seems to be working fine. It is jumpered and cabled as the primary, master drive (like the one it replaced). I reconnected the second hard drive and it was detected by the bios but it does not show in Windows. It is in the device manager as well but with no drive letter assigned to it. The secondary drive is already formatted and partitioned with Fdisk from when I initally installed it. I did not change the cabling or jumper settings. How can I get Windows to assign a drive letter to the drive and make it accessable again? |
Secondary Hard Drive
If the hard drive "died" you won't be able to. If you don't care about the
data on it you could try using FDISK and FORMAT from your bootable floppy diskette to wipe and reformat the drive. Otherwise this is likely a case for a professional, if there is data that must be recovered. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Brad L" wrote in message ... I was running two hard drives in my computer. The primary hard drive (c:) died. I replaced it, loaded Windows ME again and the new drive seems to be working fine. It is jumpered and cabled as the primary, master drive (like the one it replaced). I reconnected the second hard drive and it was detected by the bios but it does not show in Windows. It is in the device manager as well but with no drive letter assigned to it. The secondary drive is already formatted and partitioned with Fdisk from when I initally installed it. I did not change the cabling or jumper settings. How can I get Windows to assign a drive letter to the drive and make it accessable again? |
Secondary Hard Drive
It wasn't the secondary drive that died. It was the
primary drive that died and was replaced. The secondary drive was working fine but now it's the one that Windows won't acknowledge. -----Original Message----- If the hard drive "died" you won't be able to. If you don't care about the data on it you could try using FDISK and FORMAT from your bootable floppy diskette to wipe and reformat the drive. Otherwise this is likely a case for a professional, if there is data that must be recovered. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Win9x] * PLEASE post all messages and replies in the newsgroups * for the benefit of all. Private mail is usually not replied to. * HELP us help YOU ... http://www.dts-l.org/goodpost.htm "Brad L" wrote in message ... I was running two hard drives in my computer. The primary hard drive (c:) died. I replaced it, loaded Windows ME again and the new drive seems to be working fine. It is jumpered and cabled as the primary, master drive (like the one it replaced). I reconnected the second hard drive and it was detected by the bios but it does not show in Windows. It is in the device manager as well but with no drive letter assigned to it. The secondary drive is already formatted and partitioned with Fdisk from when I initally installed it. I did not change the cabling or jumper settings. How can I get Windows to assign a drive letter to the drive and make it accessable again? . |
Secondary Hard Drive
"Brad L" wrote:
I was running two hard drives in my computer. The primary hard drive (c:) died. I replaced it, loaded Windows ME again and the new drive seems to be working fine. It is jumpered and cabled as the primary, master drive (like the one it replaced). I reconnected the second hard drive and it was detected by the bios but it does not show in Windows. It is in the device manager as well but with no drive letter assigned to it. The secondary drive is already formatted and partitioned with Fdisk from when I initally installed it. I did not change the cabling or jumper settings. How can I get Windows to assign a drive letter to the drive and make it accessable again? Open a DOS command window and enter the following command: FDISK /STATUS That will tell you what is going on with regard to your hard drives and should give some clues as to what the actual problem is. Post the information back here if you need further advice or assistance. Note: If you modify the command to read: FDISK /STATUS C:\DISK.TXT then the output will be saved in the file c:\disk.txt which you can open in Notepad and then copy and paste the reported data into a reply back here. DO NOT ATTACH THE DISK.TXT FILE TO A REPLY. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
Secondary Hard Drive
Will do. Thank you!
-----Original Message----- "Brad L" wrote: I was running two hard drives in my computer. The primary hard drive (c:) died. I replaced it, loaded Windows ME again and the new drive seems to be working fine. It is jumpered and cabled as the primary, master drive (like the one it replaced). I reconnected the second hard drive and it was detected by the bios but it does not show in Windows. It is in the device manager as well but with no drive letter assigned to it. The secondary drive is already formatted and partitioned with Fdisk from when I initally installed it. I did not change the cabling or jumper settings. How can I get Windows to assign a drive letter to the drive and make it accessable again? Open a DOS command window and enter the following command: FDISK /STATUS That will tell you what is going on with regard to your hard drives and should give some clues as to what the actual problem is. Post the information back here if you need further advice or assistance. Note: If you modify the command to read: FDISK /STATUS C:\DISK.TXT then the output will be saved in the file c:\disk.txt which you can open in Notepad and then copy and paste the reported data into a reply back here. DO NOT ATTACH THE DISK.TXT FILE TO A REPLY. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." . |
Secondary Hard Drive
I ran the Fdisk /status command and here's the info it gave: Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage 1 39206 1 100% C: 39205 2 39080 100% -----Original Message----- "Brad L" wrote: I was running two hard drives in my computer. The primary hard drive (c:) died. I replaced it, loaded Windows ME again and the new drive seems to be working fine. It is jumpered and cabled as the primary, master drive (like the one it replaced). I reconnected the second hard drive and it was detected by the bios but it does not show in Windows. It is in the device manager as well but with no drive letter assigned to it. The secondary drive is already formatted and partitioned with Fdisk from when I initally installed it. I did not change the cabling or jumper settings. How can I get Windows to assign a drive letter to the drive and make it accessable again? Open a DOS command window and enter the following command: FDISK /STATUS That will tell you what is going on with regard to your hard drives and should give some clues as to what the actual problem is. Post the information back here if you need further advice or assistance. Note: If you modify the command to read: FDISK /STATUS C:\DISK.TXT then the output will be saved in the file c:\disk.txt which you can open in Notepad and then copy and paste the reported data into a reply back here. DO NOT ATTACH THE DISK.TXT FILE TO A REPLY. Good luck Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." . |
Secondary Hard Drive
"Brad L." wrote:
I ran the Fdisk /status command and here's the info it gave: Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage 1 39206 1 100% C: 39205 2 39080 100% Fdisk says that the second hard drive contains a non-DOS type partition. That typically happens when a third-party BIOS overlay program is used to allow access to a hard drive that is larger than what the computer can actually support. Were you using any such software on the old hard drive (the one that died)? Common names for this include MaxBlast, EZDrive, and Disk Manager and they usually announce themselves during the boot process, just before the Windows startup splash screen appears. Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." |
Secondary Hard Drive
They're Maxtor hard drives so I believe I used the
MaxBlast software. -----Original Message----- "Brad L." wrote: I ran the Fdisk /status command and here's the info it gave: Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage 1 39206 1 100% C: 39205 2 39080 100% Fdisk says that the second hard drive contains a non-DOS type partition. That typically happens when a third-party BIOS overlay program is used to allow access to a hard drive that is larger than what the computer can actually support. Were you using any such software on the old hard drive (the one that died)? Common names for this include MaxBlast, EZDrive, and Disk Manager and they usually announce themselves during the boot process, just before the Windows startup splash screen appears. Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." . |
Secondary Hard Drive
Good stuff to ster clear of if you can.
wrote in message ... They're Maxtor hard drives so I believe I used the MaxBlast software. -----Original Message----- "Brad L." wrote: I ran the Fdisk /status command and here's the info it gave: Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage 1 39206 1 100% C: 39205 2 39080 100% Fdisk says that the second hard drive contains a non-DOS type partition. That typically happens when a third-party BIOS overlay program is used to allow access to a hard drive that is larger than what the computer can actually support. Were you using any such software on the old hard drive (the one that died)? Common names for this include MaxBlast, EZDrive, and Disk Manager and they usually announce themselves during the boot process, just before the Windows startup splash screen appears. Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." . |
Secondary Hard Drive
Oh yeah, I've learned that. :-)
Any way to get rid of it and get access to the secondary drive again? -----Original Message----- Good stuff to ster clear of if you can. wrote in message ... They're Maxtor hard drives so I believe I used the MaxBlast software. -----Original Message----- "Brad L." wrote: I ran the Fdisk /status command and here's the info it gave: Disk Drv Mbytes Free Usage 1 39206 1 100% C: 39205 2 39080 100% Fdisk says that the second hard drive contains a non- DOS type partition. That typically happens when a third-party BIOS overlay program is used to allow access to a hard drive that is larger than what the computer can actually support. Were you using any such software on the old hard drive (the one that died)? Common names for this include MaxBlast, EZDrive, and Disk Manager and they usually announce themselves during the boot process, just before the Windows startup splash screen appears. Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada -- Microsoft MVP On-Line Help Computer Service http://onlinehelp.bc.ca "The reason computer chips are so small is computers don't eat much." . . |
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