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

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

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.

Thanks IA

 

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Ascii2

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Perhaps assign a drive letter.

 

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

 

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

 

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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.

 

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so under disk management you dont see the drive?

 

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

 

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