Just replaced HDD. 2nd drive is not recognized. Forgot what to do so XP "sees" it.

[Despotes]

I had to replace a faulty drive, but my back up drive with all of my important data is unseen by Windows. The bios sees it though. I forgot what to do so XP will recognize it. :confused:

Thanks IA

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[Ascii2]

Perhaps assign a drive letter.

[infinitevalence]

right click on mycomputer, select mannage, go do disk management. Select the new drive, create a partition, and format it.

[Despotes]

No---From what I recall there's something in Administrative Tools/ Computer Management I have to do....

[Despotes]

My back up drive is showing up in Disk Management,but has I cannot format because as I said, it has all of my important data--hence back up drive.

It says Disk 1 "Dynamic" "Foreign"--with the yellow Uh Ohhh symbol.

How do I gain access to it w/o losing my data???


Update: Never mind. Figured it out.

[infinitevalence]

so under disk management you dont see the drive?

[twoeyes]

post what you did so if anyone finds this through search they have an answer ;)

[DragonTattooz]

I would say uninstall the drive, reboot and let Windows redetect it.