Second Hard Drive not showing

From the dos prompt, what happens if you type d:  You may just have to do that within explorer.

Glenn

I assume you have a CD that's showing up as the D: drive. If thates correct just go into Device MAnager (right click My Computer / Properties 2nd Tab)  Expand the CDrom Drives - Click on the CD and go to Properties - Under Settings see if the Reserved drive letters are listing D:  If so change them to another drive like E:

If your on a network, and have drives mapped, they will override your local drives sometimes

Boot up in safe mode and remove the HDD contollers/disk drives (not cd-rom drive) - set cdrom drive to to drive E as stated by DTH above. When you boot back into windows hardware should detect and then go to device manager and check for second HDD.

1) Make sure that your first hard drive is set as Master , not CS or as single.

2) Set the BIOS to auto for all IDE drives.

If this does not work, try disconnecting the CD and putting the drive instead - set as single or master.

Also test access from your win98 boot diskette or similar.

I hope this helps !

If you have tweakui installed (control panel) go to the my computer tab, and make usre there is a check mark next to the drive(s)

When you add a new drive, it must be partitioned as an extended partition, then a logical DOS drive must be created inside the extended partition. You could use Fdisk but Fdisk is a destructive process as you would lose all the data on your old hard drive. Suggest you use a third party Fdisk substitute like Partition Magic from PowerQuest. This will be able to set your new partitions and preserve your data. Good luck...T

click on start - run then type in fdisk /mbr (note the space after fdisk). Click OK then reboot computer

If that doesn't work go to start - run & type regedit then click OK
Go to Edit - Find & type noide then click on Find Next
right click & delete any noide entries you find
reboot again

I've tried everything, but no help.  If I type D: at the prompt, it doesn't recognize the drive.  I've locked in my CDRW and CDROM as drive E and F.  I've doublechecked the jumpers and have them correct; C is set for master (15G) and D is set for slave (10G), both HDDs are on IDE ribbon 1.  The CDROMs are both on IDE ribbon 2.  I've doublechecked the bios settings and everything is set to AUTO, the bios sees both hard drives and knows the make, heads, cyl etc for both, its only windows that doesn't see the slave.  I have Partition Magic, it recognizes the second drive but can't seem to access it.  I've checked the reg for "noide", there are none to delete and I ran f/disk /mbr...no change.  One note however seems very odd, when I go to device manager, bothe C and D drive are listed as Generic type 47 drives and DMA and Portable check-offs are my only option....disconnect, auto insert and the rest are greyed out.

When adding a new drive to a system that already has a primary as in the case here DTH.

What is the history of the Western Digital Hard Disk,
how was it configured, was it the only drive in the old system? Is Windows installed on it? Formatted? How? In any event, you have partition magic already, so it won't cost any money to get this drive working. The more clear we are about what is on this drive, the better we can help...T

The western hard drive was a slave drive formatted upon installation in my old comp and only used to store music.  No OS on this drive.  I can format the disk with PM but  then I will lose all music.  I wouldn't think that formatting would prevent Windows from seeing the disk and assigning it D drive?

The western hard drive was a slave drive formatted upon installation in my old comp and only used to store music.  No OS on this drive.  I can format the disk with PM but  then I will lose all music.  I wouldn't think that formatting would prevent Windows from seeing the disk and assigning it D drive?

Ok everyone....I got the hard drive back intact.  On just a whim I ran Norton Utilities 2001 Disk Doctor.  It ran then shut down and switched to DOS mode and took me through repartitioning step by step, now it works!  DTH you were the closest to the problem............you get the prize!  Thanks everyone for trying to help, I REALLY appreciate it...you guys are always there.  Thanks again.

Answer was close enough to make me think and look at the disk itself.

It's funny that DTH objected to my suggestion that the drive be correctly partitioned, then gets the points???
T

tmj883  - I didn't object to your suggestion that it be correctly partitioned - only that you suggested

>>it must be partitioned as an extended partition, then a logical DOS drive must be created inside the extended partition.

This part was incorrect - the first partition on ANY physcial drive wether it's the 1st, 2nd 3rd or 4th  physical drive is always partitioned as a Primary DOS partition - not as an extended partition.

DTHConsulting  : actually That is NOT true !
I have my second disk drive  setup with ONLY an extended partition and logical partitions within that. This allows me to add it to the computer with affecting the drive letters already exiting !

Just my 2 cents !

Thankyou SysExpert...T

Physically it's possible to do that but is certainly restricts you if you want to use that drive in the future as the Primary drive and don't want to have to reformat it. Based on well over 20 years working with computers - it's not the recommend way of doing it.

It totally depends on your objective with the drive. If it is to be merely an archive drive, my way is better, it is to be a boot drive, then your way is better. Nuff said...T