Cannot access second hard drive 1

[bocagrande]

I have two hard drives installed (80 GB and 120 GB)and working properly per device manager. However, I can only see one drive as C drive in explorer. I know that you can manually designate a drive letter to the second drive so that it an be accessed. I have done it once, but cannot seem to find the info to repeat the process. Can anyone please send me in the right direction.

 

[Freestone]

A drive must be partitioned and formatted before a drive letter will be assigned. What does Disk Management show? Start, Run..., diskmgmt.msc

 

[bocagrande]

Under diskmgmt.msc I show..
Disk 0 as C drive 120 GB, NTFS
no Disk 1
Disk 2 through 6 as removable disks g, F, I ,H, J
Disk 7 as K as 250 MB FAT , it is a Quick drive
CDROM0 as D
CDROM1 as E
During boot up I see the 80 GB drive as slave and under control panel/systems/device manager/disk drive it shows as volume (1)1 and is working properly, dut does not show under explorer

 

[Freestone]

Have you verified your hard drive jumpers per your IDE setup?

I am guessing your 120GB drive C: is Master on IDE0 and the 80GB is Slave on IDE0, while the two CD-ROM drives are Master and Slave on IDE1.

Whatever arrangement, if your 80GB is jumpered for Slave then the other drive should be jumpered for Master. Be sure you are not mixing Master/Slave on one and Cable Select on the other.

 

[bocagrande]

I checked and sure enough the 120 GB disk was not jumpered properly...I corrected as indicated to master and slave...and the diskmgmt and systems still indicate smae issues..still cannot see (disk 1)

Will try other things

 

[Freestone]

Hmmm, strange it isn't showing up in Disk Management now. Is BIOS seeing all drives correctly? If so, then in Disk Management, from the Action menu item, try selecting Rescan Disks...don't know if that'll help, but try and see.

 

[bocagrande]

I have a new hard drive and it shows as F drive...thanks...something might be wrong with my Hard drive even though it shows as working OK
Again thanks for your help

 

[Freestone]

At some point you might want to run the manufacturer's diagnostic on your suspected drive. If it shows good AND there is no data you want on the drive, you then can try zeroing the drive and trying it again.

Thanks for posting back your results.

 

[bocagrande]

How do you run manufacturers diagnostic?

 

[Freestone]

Manufacturer's diagnostics are downloaded from the web site of your hard drive's manufacturer. Usually the download creates a self-booting diskette or is an ISO image that you use to create a bootable CD.

For instance, Western Digital's diagnostics can be found at

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp

Seagate, Maxtor, etc. have similar tools.