Windows won't recognize new hard drive

I installed a Western Digital 80GB second hard drive in an HP Pavilion 6630
running Win 98SE. I manually entered it into the Bios as a primary slave
drive (my CD is the secondary primary drive), and the information has
survived numerous reboots.

I used the installation software, which presumably formatted the drive to
make it ready for use.

In the device manager it shows, under the primary drive, and has the letter
designation of D:

At a DOS prompt, I can access drive D: and it shows the full capacity ready
to receive files.

But . . . I can't find drive D: anywhere in Windows. My Computer lists C:
and then M: (the CD drive). It's missing in Windows Explorer. I realize I
was never given an opportunity, in the setup (using Western Digital Data
Lifeguard Tools), to name the drive. But the proper drive letter was
assigned.

Unless I can get it to show up in Windows Explorer (and My Computer),
there's no way I can actually use the new drive.

Any ideas about what I'm missing here?

Thanks.

Bruce Abell

"Bruce Abell" wrote in message
...

I installed a Western Digital 80GB second hard drive in an HP Pavilion
6630
running Win 98SE. I manually entered it into the Bios as a primary slave
drive (my CD is the secondary primary drive), and the information has
survived numerous reboots.

I used the installation software, which presumably formatted the drive to
make it ready for use.

In the device manager it shows, under the primary drive, and has the
letter
designation of D:

At a DOS prompt, I can access drive D: and it shows the full capacity
ready
to receive files.

But . . . I can't find drive D: anywhere in Windows.

This is normal for an unformatted drive.
Why not at least try:
A:FORMAT D:
because you cannot lose any date (none there.)

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(harvested by senders of malware.)

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(Ottawa, Canada)

Bruce Abell wrote in message ...
I installed a Western Digital 80GB second hard drive in an HP Pavilion 6630
running Win 98SE. I manually entered it into the Bios as a primary slave
drive (my CD is the secondary primary drive), and the information has
survived numerous reboots.

I used the installation software, which presumably formatted the drive to
make it ready for use.

It should have presented you with the opportunity to specify
the partition configuration desired, and then partitioned and formatted
the new drive and copied the files from the old drive to the new.

If it didn't do all that, then you possibly made a mistake
somewhere in the process.

In the device manager it shows, under the primary drive, and has the letter
designation of D:

At a DOS prompt, I can access drive D: and it shows the full capacity ready
to receive files.

But . . . I can't find drive D: anywhere in Windows. My Computer lists C:
and then M: (the CD drive). It's missing in Windows Explorer. I realize I
was never given an opportunity, in the setup (using Western Digital Data
Lifeguard Tools), to name the drive. But the proper drive letter was
assigned.

Run it again. Windows cannot "see" the drive until it is partitioned.
Only then can and will Windows assign a drive letter.

The next step would be to format each partition.

If that doesn't get you off and running, then you may have a need
for a BIOS upgrade, or you may need a BIOS overlay installed.

Unless I can get it to show up in Windows Explorer (and My Computer),
there's no way I can actually use the new drive.

Any ideas about what I'm missing here?

Thanks.

Bruce Abell

Generally, if the drive is visible in DOS it should be visible in Windows.
If you have TweakUI installed (look in Control Panel) then make sure that
you don't have drive D marked as hidden.
--
Jeff Richards
MS MVP (Windows - Shell/User)
"Bruce Abell" wrote in message
...
I installed a Western Digital 80GB second hard drive in an HP Pavilion 6630
running Win 98SE. I manually entered it into the Bios as a primary slave
drive (my CD is the secondary primary drive), and the information has
survived numerous reboots.

I used the installation software, which presumably formatted the drive to
make it ready for use.

In the device manager it shows, under the primary drive, and has the
letter
designation of D:

At a DOS prompt, I can access drive D: and it shows the full capacity
ready
to receive files.

But . . . I can't find drive D: anywhere in Windows. My Computer lists C:
and then M: (the CD drive). It's missing in Windows Explorer. I realize
I
was never given an opportunity, in the setup (using Western Digital Data
Lifeguard Tools), to name the drive. But the proper drive letter was
assigned.

Unless I can get it to show up in Windows Explorer (and My Computer),
there's no way I can actually use the new drive.

Any ideas about what I'm missing here?

Thanks.

Bruce Abell

to have abc,,,M you must have installed some software or made some registry
change that overrules windows drive letter allocation or your cdrom would
have been D: before, and E: after the installation. Find what and undo it

possibly: Install tweakUi and switch back on all the drive letters,
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"Bruce Abell" wrote in message
...
| I installed a Western Digital 80GB second hard drive in an HP Pavilion 6630
| running Win 98SE. I manually entered it into the Bios as a primary slave
| drive (my CD is the secondary primary drive), and the information has
| survived numerous reboots.
|
| I used the installation software, which presumably formatted the drive to
| make it ready for use.
|
| In the device manager it shows, under the primary drive, and has the letter
| designation of D:
|
| At a DOS prompt, I can access drive D: and it shows the full capacity ready
| to receive files.
|
| But . . . I can't find drive D: anywhere in Windows. My Computer lists C:
| and then M: (the CD drive). It's missing in Windows Explorer. I realize I
| was never given an opportunity, in the setup (using Western Digital Data
| Lifeguard Tools), to name the drive. But the proper drive letter was
| assigned.
|
| Unless I can get it to show up in Windows Explorer (and My Computer),
| there's no way I can actually use the new drive.
|
| Any ideas about what I'm missing here?
|
| Thanks.
|
| Bruce Abell
|
|
|

"AlmostBob" wrote in
:

to have abc,,,M you must have installed some software or made some
registry change that overrules windows drive letter allocation or your
cdrom would have been D: before, and E: after the installation. Find
what and undo it

Compaq (or one of them) always sets the CD-Rom to "M".

--
--- I haven't lost my mind. It's backed up on disk somewhere. ---

Not Compaq; mine was a normal letter. I decided to set it to W:\ one day
myself. Here is the story...

http://www.pcmag.com/ 's COA2 will help with this. After you move a file
or folder, you may use COA2 to change system references to the new
address. It will change references in the current Registry and all
..ini's & shortcuts on all drives. Nothing else, however, is changed,
including Registry or other zipped backups, Autoexec.bat, Config.sys, or
anything. And, there was a reference in Autoexec.bat that I needed to
change (for a CD-R/W drive letter). It also will not change references
that are binary, but those are generally in MRU lists & will auto-adjust
in time. Here's my experience in changing a drive letter-- no trouble
with "W:\", since the change.

CD-R/W Drive Letter Change

Using Device Manager, I changed my CD-R/W letter from E: to W: "Control
Panel, System, Device Manager tab, open CD-ROM branch, D-Clk CD-ROM for
Properties, Settings tab, enter 'W' for both start/end drive letter, OK,
OK". Then, I ran PC Mag's COA2, to change system references. Having
carefully read the docs, I typed E: for old addr; W:, for new. Neither
existed! I put a formatted CD into W: (on a hunch), tried again, & the
"Change Now" button lit up. (Unexpectedly, using the "Browse" button, it
wrote"W:\" for the new letter, so I fixed E: to "E:\", for the old.) I
was surprised to see, in the "Detail Report" screen, it changed INIs on
my Dartition. I didn't see a mention of it in the "Review Change
Records" screen-- maybe I missed a page; it's possible. Anyway, the
references were indeed now W:.

The only Shortcuts fixed were three on the START,Documents recent list.
On C:, only WINDOWS\winhelp.ini had a reference, not System.ini nor
Win.ini. On D:, CPQS\aqr.ini and CPQS\ACC\AQR.INI were fixed. Eight
Registry entries seemed clearly to be importantly and well changed.
There were references, in the Registry, it would not change, because
they were binary. These were in MRU (Most Recently Used) lists, making
them of little consequence.


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Menno Hershberger" wrote in message
...
| "AlmostBob" wrote in
| :
|
| to have abc,,,M you must have installed some software or made some
| registry change that overrules windows drive letter allocation or
your
| cdrom would have been D: before, and E: after the installation. Find
| what and undo it
|
| Compaq (or one of them) always sets the CD-Rom to "M".
|
| --
| --- I haven't lost my mind. It's backed up on disk somewhere. ---

There's always more for me to find out

"PCR" wrote in message
...
| Not Compaq; mine was a normal letter. I decided to set it to W:\ one day
| myself. Here is the story...
|
| http://www.pcmag.com/ 's COA2 will help with this. After you move a file
| or folder, you may use COA2 to change system references to the new
| address. It will change references in the current Registry and all
| .ini's & shortcuts on all drives. Nothing else, however, is changed,
| including Registry or other zipped backups, Autoexec.bat, Config.sys, or
| anything. And, there was a reference in Autoexec.bat that I needed to
| change (for a CD-R/W drive letter). It also will not change references
| that are binary, but those are generally in MRU lists & will auto-adjust
| in time. Here's my experience in changing a drive letter-- no trouble
| with "W:\", since the change.
|
| CD-R/W Drive Letter Change
|
| Using Device Manager, I changed my CD-R/W letter from E: to W: "Control
| Panel, System, Device Manager tab, open CD-ROM branch, D-Clk CD-ROM for
| Properties, Settings tab, enter 'W' for both start/end drive letter, OK,
| OK". Then, I ran PC Mag's COA2, to change system references. Having
| carefully read the docs, I typed E: for old addr; W:, for new. Neither
| existed! I put a formatted CD into W: (on a hunch), tried again, & the
| "Change Now" button lit up. (Unexpectedly, using the "Browse" button, it
| wrote"W:\" for the new letter, so I fixed E: to "E:\", for the old.) I
| was surprised to see, in the "Detail Report" screen, it changed INIs on
| my Dartition. I didn't see a mention of it in the "Review Change
| Records" screen-- maybe I missed a page; it's possible. Anyway, the
| references were indeed now W:.
|
| The only Shortcuts fixed were three on the START,Documents recent list.
| On C:, only WINDOWS\winhelp.ini had a reference, not System.ini nor
| Win.ini. On D:, CPQS\aqr.ini and CPQS\ACC\AQR.INI were fixed. Eight
| Registry entries seemed clearly to be importantly and well changed.
| There were references, in the Registry, it would not change, because
| they were binary. These were in MRU (Most Recently Used) lists, making
| them of little consequence.
|
|
| --
| Thanks or Good Luck,
| There may be humor in this post, and,
| Naturally, you will not sue,
| should things get worse after this,
| PCR
|
| "Menno Hershberger" wrote in message
| ...
| | "AlmostBob" wrote in
| | :
| |
| | to have abc,,,M you must have installed some software or made some
| | registry change that overrules windows drive letter allocation or
| your
| | cdrom would have been D: before, and E: after the installation. Find
| | what and undo it
| |
| | Compaq (or one of them) always sets the CD-Rom to "M".
| |
| | --
| | --- I haven't lost my mind. It's backed up on disk somewhere. ---
|
|

That is true enough, no matter who may say it.

--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"AlmostBob" wrote in message
...
| There's always more for me to find out
|
| "PCR" wrote in message
| ...
| | Not Compaq; mine was a normal letter. I decided to set it to W:\ one
day
| | myself. Here is the story...
| |
| | http://www.pcmag.com/ 's COA2 will help with this. After you move a
file
| | or folder, you may use COA2 to change system references to the new
| | address. It will change references in the current Registry and all
| | .ini's & shortcuts on all drives. Nothing else, however, is changed,
| | including Registry or other zipped backups, Autoexec.bat,
Config.sys, or
| | anything. And, there was a reference in Autoexec.bat that I needed
to
| | change (for a CD-R/W drive letter). It also will not change
references
| | that are binary, but those are generally in MRU lists & will
auto-adjust
| | in time. Here's my experience in changing a drive letter-- no
trouble
| | with "W:\", since the change.
| |
| | CD-R/W Drive Letter Change
| |
| | Using Device Manager, I changed my CD-R/W letter from E: to W:
"Control
| | Panel, System, Device Manager tab, open CD-ROM branch, D-Clk CD-ROM
for
| | Properties, Settings tab, enter 'W' for both start/end drive letter,
OK,
| | OK". Then, I ran PC Mag's COA2, to change system references. Having
| | carefully read the docs, I typed E: for old addr; W:, for new.
Neither
| | existed! I put a formatted CD into W: (on a hunch), tried again, &
the
| | "Change Now" button lit up. (Unexpectedly, using the "Browse"
button, it
| | wrote"W:\" for the new letter, so I fixed E: to "E:\", for the old.)
I
| | was surprised to see, in the "Detail Report" screen, it changed INIs
on
| | my Dartition. I didn't see a mention of it in the "Review Change
| | Records" screen-- maybe I missed a page; it's possible. Anyway, the
| | references were indeed now W:.
| |
| | The only Shortcuts fixed were three on the START,Documents recent
list.
| | On C:, only WINDOWS\winhelp.ini had a reference, not System.ini nor
| | Win.ini. On D:, CPQS\aqr.ini and CPQS\ACC\AQR.INI were fixed. Eight
| | Registry entries seemed clearly to be importantly and well changed.
| | There were references, in the Registry, it would not change, because
| | they were binary. These were in MRU (Most Recently Used) lists,
making
| | them of little consequence.
| |
| |
| | --
| | Thanks or Good Luck,
| | There may be humor in this post, and,
| | Naturally, you will not sue,
| | should things get worse after this,
| | PCR
| |
| | "Menno Hershberger" wrote in message
| | ...
| | | "AlmostBob" wrote in
| | | :
| | |
| | | to have abc,,,M you must have installed some software or made
some
| | | registry change that overrules windows drive letter allocation
or
| | your
| | | cdrom would have been D: before, and E: after the installation.
Find
| | | what and undo it
| | |
| | | Compaq (or one of them) always sets the CD-Rom to "M".
| | |
| | | --
| | | --- I haven't lost my mind. It's backed up on disk
somewhere. ---
| |
| |
|
|

Believe U, V, W are commonly used for USB sticks, digital camera interface
software etc. W is bad choice in some instances for an Atapi device such a
cdrom in windows as a result.
"PCR" wrote in message
...
Not Compaq; mine was a normal letter. I decided to set it to W:\ one day
myself. Here is the story...

http://www.pcmag.com/ 's COA2 will help with this. After you move a file
or folder, you may use COA2 to change system references to the new
address. It will change references in the current Registry and all
.ini's & shortcuts on all drives. Nothing else, however, is changed,
including Registry or other zipped backups, Autoexec.bat, Config.sys, or
anything. And, there was a reference in Autoexec.bat that I needed to
change (for a CD-R/W drive letter). It also will not change references
that are binary, but those are generally in MRU lists & will auto-adjust
in time. Here's my experience in changing a drive letter-- no trouble
with "W:\", since the change.

CD-R/W Drive Letter Change

Using Device Manager, I changed my CD-R/W letter from E: to W: "Control
Panel, System, Device Manager tab, open CD-ROM branch, D-Clk CD-ROM for
Properties, Settings tab, enter 'W' for both start/end drive letter, OK,
OK". Then, I ran PC Mag's COA2, to change system references. Having
carefully read the docs, I typed E: for old addr; W:, for new. Neither
existed! I put a formatted CD into W: (on a hunch), tried again, & the
"Change Now" button lit up. (Unexpectedly, using the "Browse" button, it
wrote"W:\" for the new letter, so I fixed E: to "E:\", for the old.) I
was surprised to see, in the "Detail Report" screen, it changed INIs on
my Dartition. I didn't see a mention of it in the "Review Change
Records" screen-- maybe I missed a page; it's possible. Anyway, the
references were indeed now W:.

The only Shortcuts fixed were three on the START,Documents recent list.
On C:, only WINDOWS\winhelp.ini had a reference, not System.ini nor
Win.ini. On D:, CPQS\aqr.ini and CPQS\ACC\AQR.INI were fixed. Eight
Registry entries seemed clearly to be importantly and well changed.
There were references, in the Registry, it would not change, because
they were binary. These were in MRU (Most Recently Used) lists, making
them of little consequence.


--
Thanks or Good Luck,
There may be humor in this post, and,
Naturally, you will not sue,
should things get worse after this,
PCR

"Menno Hershberger" wrote in message
...
| "AlmostBob" wrote in
| :
|
| to have abc,,,M you must have installed some software or made some
| registry change that overrules windows drive letter allocation or
your
| cdrom would have been D: before, and E: after the installation. Find
| what and undo it
|
| Compaq (or one of them) always sets the CD-Rom to "M".
|
| --
| --- I haven't lost my mind. It's backed up on disk somewhere. ---