"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

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