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Second hard drive doesn't show under disk drives.

Dec 31, 2006 8:00PM PST

Hey everyone.Just put in a new maxtor 200 gig hd as my primary to replace the old 80 gig I had.With the old setup I also had a Maxtor 200 gig as a storage drive, and put my backups for photos, music, etc on it.Did a fresh operating system install on the new drive,and it's fine, but doesn't show the second drive under my computer.However it does under device manager, and says that the device is operating properly.I'm lost, I have tons of stuff on that second drive that I want to transfer back onto the new primary.I have the primary set as master,the second drive set as slave.I will mention that when I set up the second drive a year ago I used the Maxtor software,and used windows to set up the new primary drive.I have a Dell Dimension 3000,windows XP Home,3.0 pentium 4 with HT.Any help would sure be appreciated.Btw, I considered drive failure, but for all practical purposes the drive is new.I installed it a year ago, and only accessed it ocassionally for storage.

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just went though this
Dec 31, 2006 8:21PM PST

you need to go into your bios setting, and enable the new drive. Then the os will see it.

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Thanks John, but it's a no go
Dec 31, 2006 10:53PM PST

My son and I thought of bios, and rechecked.Primary slave is set to auto, and it shows the storage capacity so it know's it's there.Just set the primary hard drive to cable select instead of master and that didn't work.Checked for driver update but device manager says I have the most recent.Shows as working under device manager, but does not show up on my computer so I can access it.Checked all the cable and power connections and they appear to be tight.I'm stumped.Another thing I will mention is that for the slave drive maxtor says no jumpers.It worked for a year like that, but with the new hard drive install would that change? Any help is appreciated,and thanks.

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2 ideas.
Dec 31, 2006 11:10PM PST

1. In Disk Management (XP?) see if the drive is there and "activate" it. Here's a link about that. http://www.theeldergeek.com/disk_management.htm

2. It's possible you relied on Microsoft for your motherboard drivers. I don't.

Finally you can try Zero Assumption Recovery on it.

Bob

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Thanks Bob!
Jan 1, 2007 4:14AM PST

I couldn't figure out how to just activate it, but the program gave me the ability to format it, and that gives me my drive back.I have all the stuff on one cd or another and will just put it all back in.I've got the Eldergeek site bookmarked for future reference.Thanks again for the help everyone! I would never have known disk management was there.