pitbull481 Posted February 22, 2005 CID Share Posted February 22, 2005 i've restarted (reformat) and now i dont see my 2nd hard drive (drive f) i check the plugs and everything is ok can any body help mehow i can get my 2nd HDD?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oo0oscar0oo Posted February 22, 2005 CID Share Posted February 22, 2005 is the second hard drive formatted? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted February 22, 2005 Author CID Share Posted February 22, 2005 how do i do that? i bought the 2nd hard drive 5 months ago and installed it right away and now that i wanted to clean my whole computer i dont see drive f Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REH Posted February 22, 2005 CID Share Posted February 22, 2005 Have you rebooted your PC since the reinstall of Windows? If you have not, when you reboot it will detect a hardware change, if you reinstalled a while ago, you will need to check your drive configuration in your bios to make sure that it is set to check the secondary on that IDE. Let me know. -REH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted February 22, 2005 Author CID Share Posted February 22, 2005 i rebooted 3,4 times dont see my other hard drive i restarted again to get the bios, and i pressed F2 for the Bios nothing happen it just log log me on javascript:void(0); Mad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oo0oscar0oo Posted February 22, 2005 CID Share Posted February 22, 2005 if your computer doesnt detect it.that meens that you dont have something right in the bios settings. or dont have the jumpers set up the right way they are suppose to be. and if you cant detect it in windows when you go to my computer and its not there its probably because its not formatted. and its unpartioned. so you bought this hard drive "? New? i think the problem is that its unformated to what i see... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jim2006 Posted February 22, 2005 CID Share Posted February 22, 2005 hey I know someone that had this same prob!!! Try making sure you don't have two drives setup as one letter or name!!! That is what your prob was!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oo0oscar0oo Posted February 22, 2005 CID Share Posted February 22, 2005 You should download partition magic...it will help you... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REH Posted February 22, 2005 CID Share Posted February 22, 2005 Unhook the drive, Restart. Check the jumpers on the drive, if you are not going to use this drive as your boot drive, check the jumpers and make sure they are set to "slave" Hook the drive back up. Reboot. This should solve your problem. -REH Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
organ_shifter Posted February 22, 2005 CID Share Posted February 22, 2005 Right-click on My Computer, select "Manage". Once computer management opens up, select "Disk Management" from the left column. If you don't see your missing drive displayed in the right top window at this time, you can right click on "Disk Management" and Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just- Posted February 22, 2005 CID Share Posted February 22, 2005 partition magic will allow you to see it if it is pluged in the computer it can be or not formated it doesnt matter partion magic will tell you that its there ftp://ftp.boss8u8.com/download/PartitionMagic_v8.02.rar Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted February 23, 2005 Author CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 well i am reformating (restarting) my computer again. see what happens Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted February 23, 2005 Author CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 organ_shifter, i did what you said "Right-click on My Computer, select "Manage". Once computer management opens up, select "Disk Management" from the left column" i do see my other 80 gig hdd now what do i have to do to use it (store my 3000 songs). here is a pic http://pictures.sprintpcs.com/share.jsp?invite=lE6P4F8q55UWqLczz8Nh&shareName=Photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oo0oscar0oo Posted February 23, 2005 CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 Hey. you have to format it since its unalocated. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlord Posted February 23, 2005 CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 partition then format right click the drive partition then format it shoulda read the instructions wiht the hd :evil6: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pitbull481 Posted February 23, 2005 Author CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 Hey. you have to format it since its unalocated. do i have to put in my operation disk AGAIN to format? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlord Posted February 23, 2005 CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 uh u need ot make apartition BEFORE u can format = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oo0oscar0oo Posted February 23, 2005 CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 yea thats right sorry. you make it a partition then you format use powerquest powermagic 8.0 .if you dont have it yet..download it . you can get the trial from http://www.click-now.net/cgi-bin/download.pl?file=0811 ok once you h ave it just open it and the hdd should pop up saying" Unallocated" ok now what you do is you right click on that hdd and it should say "create in the menu you click on create make it logical partition NTFS and choose the driver letter..press ok let it do its thing. after that you should have a NTFS hdd..now you just format it by right clicking again and clicking on format. after that you should be done. if i said something wrng. please correct me someone . im trying my best to help -hope that helps. bye Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlord Posted February 23, 2005 CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 quit posting dang ;p this is what u do :roll: :shock: :roll: :evil6: :-P Right-click on My Computer, select "Manage". Once computer management opens up, select "Disk Management" from the left column. If you don't see your missing drive displayed in the right top window at this time, you can right click on "Disk Management" and select the appropriate option to create a new partition and then give it a drive letter. In most cases, you will be guided through a wizard of some sort. If your drive is displayed, you can then proceed to right -click on it from the selection of available drives in the top right window and create your new partition from there. Until your drive is formatted and a letter has been assigned to it, it normally will not show up in My Computer, thus, not being reconized by windows on a functional level. You will even see it displayed in Device Manager showing you that windows does know it's there. but just won't let you make any advances on it until you register it on an operational level. Hopefully this will help you. My instructions are not dead on, but I think you'll get the feel for it once you are there. I just went through this with a S-ATA drive I just bought. It wouldn't show up in windows without it actually being formatted and assigned a drive letter (even with the latest RAID drivers). Although, I used Symantec Partition Magic 8.0. The older Powerquest Partition Magic 8.0 will work as well. Good luck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oo0oscar0oo Posted February 23, 2005 CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 dAMn! As i said before i am just trying to help..everyone has the right to possst!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlord Posted February 23, 2005 CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 lol yea man its ok haha just seems i notice the good feedback and the user thats asking hte questions ignores it like it wasnt even posted Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oo0oscar0oo Posted February 23, 2005 CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 lol ok hehe:P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reno Posted February 23, 2005 CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 I had the same thing happen to me all you have to do is reformat the Slave and then it will show up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlord Posted February 23, 2005 CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 oscar see what im saying just like the previous poster did = Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oo0oscar0oo Posted February 23, 2005 CID Share Posted February 23, 2005 haha yep..people are repeating the same thing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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