Can't see second HD

[roban]

I have a second HD on my system. It's 120GB. I recently re-formatted the boot drive and re-installed XP Pro. I was able to see the second drive before but cannot now. It is listed in bios and device manager but I cannot access it. It is a FAT format and hasn't been touched . It is setup as a slave. My 'C' drive is listed as Drive '0' and the other as Drive'1'. If there was a voltage problem with the drive would it still be listed as installed hardware? I have uninstalled the driver and re-installed. Later I will disconnect and boot then re-connect and boot to see if that works but maybe I am missing something simple. thanks for reading this.

if it weren't for flashbacks I'd have no memory at all

 

[wolluf]

Does it appear in disk management?

Did you have to use overlay software to get your bios to recognise it in the first place?

 

[roban]

Thanks for the reply. I did not have to use overlay software to see the drive in bios. When I first installed the drive it was recognized immediately. If I recall correctly I did not see the drive in Disk Management in fact which prompted me to turn on a few services. This drive has about 110GB of data so format is not an option at this point.

if it weren't for flashbacks I'd have no memory at all

 

[roban]

I do believe I have found the problem. There is a GoBack partition on the drive. I will use Partition Magic to delete the partition. I will post how it goes.

if it weren't for flashbacks I'd have no memory at all

 

[Bytemaster34]

You may just need to assign a drive letter.

Right-click your my computer icon, and select "Manage". In the left pane of the window that appears, select the Disk Management option.

You should then see a layout of your physical drives and partitions. Right click your big partition (ie. not the GoBack partition) partition on the 2nd drive and you can assign a drive letter to it.

 

[roban]

Thanks for the reply Bytemaster34. The problem was that GoBack took the entire drive as a type 44 partition so Windows could not possibly see it. I was able to convert it with Partition Magic. Unfortunately I also had to delete the existing partition and the entire 110GB of data and most of it was backed up on CD's. I was then able to retrieve a great deal of missing data, about 80%, using Get Data Back. Thanks for the help.

if it weren't for flashbacks I'd have no memory at all