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Missing Hard Drive
My operating system does not recognize the second hard
drive. The drive was working ok, but now when I start up it is not showing up in Explorer or My Computer. I am having problems with C drive but don't know if that is related to the second drive problem. The C drive gives a message on startup that there may be errrors and Scandisk needs to be run. When I press any key, Microsoft Scandisk comes up but that is all. No graph of progress or anything. I can press Control-Alt-Delete and when it re-boots it may or may not bring up the message about running Scandisk. If it does it scans and continues to boot up, otherwise it boots up ok this time. I have asked for help with this problem before and one person asked if the Bios recognizes the other drive. I haven't had any luck getting to the Bios. What do I need to do to get to the Bios and could the problem with the C drive be causing the second drive to not be showing up? |
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It's more likely that a problem with the second drive has caused it to
disappear and has also caused it to interfere with the first drive. You access BIOS setup by pressing a magic key such as DEL or ESC when the memory count is ticking over after initial power-up. The key to press should be displayed on-screen (perhaps across the bottom of the display) during the memory check. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 "Ric" wrote in message ... My operating system does not recognize the second hard drive. The drive was working ok, but now when I start up it is not showing up in Explorer or My Computer. I am having problems with C drive but don't know if that is related to the second drive problem. The C drive gives a message on startup that there may be errrors and Scandisk needs to be run. When I press any key, Microsoft Scandisk comes up but that is all. No graph of progress or anything. I can press Control-Alt-Delete and when it re-boots it may or may not bring up the message about running Scandisk. If it does it scans and continues to boot up, otherwise it boots up ok this time. I have asked for help with this problem before and one person asked if the Bios recognizes the other drive. I haven't had any luck getting to the Bios. What do I need to do to get to the Bios and could the problem with the C drive be causing the second drive to not be showing up? |
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Missing Hard Drive
I am thinking about just running the reinstall disk supplied with the computer. Do you think there is a chance this will solve all the problems? If I run the install will this have any effect on the second drive, as far as seeing the drive? -----Original Message----- It's more likely that a problem with the second drive has caused it to disappear and has also caused it to interfere with the first drive. You access BIOS setup by pressing a magic key such as DEL or ESC when the memory count is ticking over after initial power-up. The key to press should be displayed on-screen (perhaps across the bottom of the display) during the memory check. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 "Ric" wrote in message ... My operating system does not recognize the second hard drive. The drive was working ok, but now when I start up it is not showing up in Explorer or My Computer. I am having problems with C drive but don't know if that is related to the second drive problem. The C drive gives a message on startup that there may be errrors and Scandisk needs to be run. When I press any key, Microsoft Scandisk comes up but that is all. No graph of progress or anything. I can press Control-Alt-Delete and when it re-boots it may or may not bring up the message about running Scandisk. If it does it scans and continues to boot up, otherwise it boots up ok this time. I have asked for help with this problem before and one person asked if the Bios recognizes the other drive. I haven't had any luck getting to the Bios. What do I need to do to get to the Bios and could the problem with the C drive be causing the second drive to not be showing up? . |
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Missing Hard Drive
If an installed version of Windows fails to see a second hard drive then it
is unlikely that the Windows installation procedure will see it. You need to confirm that the drive is properly recognised in BIOS setup in order to determine what's needed to get Windows to recognise it. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 wrote in message ... I am thinking about just running the reinstall disk supplied with the computer. Do you think there is a chance this will solve all the problems? If I run the install will this have any effect on the second drive, as far as seeing the drive? -----Original Message----- It's more likely that a problem with the second drive has caused it to disappear and has also caused it to interfere with the first drive. You access BIOS setup by pressing a magic key such as DEL or ESC when the memory count is ticking over after initial power-up. The key to press should be displayed on-screen (perhaps across the bottom of the display) during the memory check. -- Jeff Richards MS MVP W95/W98 "Ric" wrote in message ... My operating system does not recognize the second hard drive. The drive was working ok, but now when I start up it is not showing up in Explorer or My Computer. I am having problems with C drive but don't know if that is related to the second drive problem. The C drive gives a message on startup that there may be errrors and Scandisk needs to be run. When I press any key, Microsoft Scandisk comes up but that is all. No graph of progress or anything. I can press Control-Alt-Delete and when it re-boots it may or may not bring up the message about running Scandisk. If it does it scans and continues to boot up, otherwise it boots up ok this time. I have asked for help with this problem before and one person asked if the Bios recognizes the other drive. I haven't had any luck getting to the Bios. What do I need to do to get to the Bios and could the problem with the C drive be causing the second drive to not be showing up? . |
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