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Windows not showing 2nd HDD

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CDC Mail Guy

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I go into my computer, and my 160GB hard drive does not show up? It is listed in the device manager, and in my BIOS. How do I get it to show under My Computer, and how do I get into it if it's not showing? All my Good Pics and movies are in there! 🙂😉
 
Try right-clicking My Computer, choose Manage, then go down to Disk Management. If the drive is listed, right-click it and see if it needs initialization or just a drive letter.
 
Originally posted by: CDC Mail Guy
I go into my computer, and my 160GB hard drive does not show up? It is listed in the device manager, and in my BIOS. How do I get it to show under My Computer, and how do I get into it if it's not showing? All my Good Pics and movies are in there! 🙂😉
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you might have to format it through disk management.
 
Originally posted by: sonoma1993
Originally posted by: CDC Mail Guy
I go into my computer, and my 160GB hard drive does not show up? It is listed in the device manager, and in my BIOS. How do I get it to show under My Computer, and how do I get into it if it's not showing? All my Good Pics and movies are in there! 🙂😉
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you might have to format it through disk management.
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Won't formatting it erase everything that's on it? When I right click the drive (it DOES show, but as unallocated with no drive letter), I am given the options of new partition, properties and help.

 
is your 160gb a new hdd? start the process for making a new partition, just dont go all the way through it. Just up to the point it let you adjust the amount for the partition. And see how much space it'll let you make for that partition.
 
Originally posted by: sonoma1993
is your 160gb a new hdd? start the process for making a new partition, just dont go all the way through it. Just up to the point it let you adjust the amount for the partition. And see how much space it'll let you make for that partition.
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No, it;s not new. Transferred from my dell into new case. Has a LOT of files on it that are irreplacable! This drive shows up under device manager, but not under my computer.
 
Originally posted by: CDC Mail Guy
Originally posted by: sonoma1993
is your 160gb a new hdd? start the process for making a new partition, just dont go all the way through it. Just up to the point it let you adjust the amount for the partition. And see how much space it'll let you make for that partition.
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No, it;s not new. Transferred from my dell into new case. Has a LOT of files on it that are irreplacable! This drive shows up under device manager, but not under my computer.
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Ok... give us more details of the scenerio; you said you transferred it from another computer;
Ok.. was the drive, the boot drive of that old computer? Or was it a storage drive?
What type of file system was the drive formatted as, in the previous system. Hopefully, it is NTFS.

What is the operating system on the computer that you are transferring the drive to?

As others have stated, you need to go to "Computer Management" (Windows XP, right click on "My Computer", then -> "Manage")

Then, go to "Disk Management". You'll see the drive there.


 
CDC Mail Guy has already stated on a couple of occasions that:

[*]the drive already has data on it and was working fine.
[*]the drive is detected by the bios and the OS.
[*]since it is listed under disk management he's most likely using Win 2K or XP.

Therefore do not make a new partition or format the drive unless you don't care about the data that is still on there!

End result:
The partition table is gone. Run data recovery and you should get most, if not all, of the files back. Be sure to do periodic backups from now on to removable media. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: nweaver
he just needs to assign the partition a drive letter....
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Unfortunately it's not that simple. 🙁

CDC Mail Guy: (it DOES show, but as unallocated with no drive letter), I am given the options of new partition, properties and help.
 
Originally posted by: stu1811
Are the jumpers set correctly...master and slave
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Did you actually read everything that was posted in this thread or just the thread title?
 
Originally posted by: John
CDC Mail Guy has already stated on a couple of occasions that:

[*]the drive already has data on it and was working fine.
[*]the drive is detected by the bios and the OS.
[*]since it is listed under disk management he's most likely using Win 2K or XP.

Therefore do not make a new partition or format the drive unless you don't care about the data that is still on there!

End result:
The partition table is gone. Run data recovery and you should get most, if not all, of the files back. Be sure to do periodic backups from now on to removable media. 🙂
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Yes Win XP! Ran Data Recovery (thanks for the suggestion), and it found EVERYTHING on secondary drive. Balking at the $79.00 registration cost right now, but will probably just get it. This is fine for the pics, because they can be transferred to the boot/primary/C drive without taking up too much room, but the vids will not fit on primary.

 
Originally posted by: jlbenedict
Originally posted by: CDC Mail Guy
Originally posted by: sonoma1993
is your 160gb a new hdd? start the process for making a new partition, just dont go all the way through it. Just up to the point it let you adjust the amount for the partition. And see how much space it'll let you make for that partition.
Click to expand...
No, it;s not new. Transferred from my dell into new case. Has a LOT of files on it that are irreplacable! This drive shows up under device manager, but not under my computer.
Click to expand...


Ok... give us more details of the scenerio; you said you transferred it from another computer;
Ok.. was the drive, the boot drive of that old computer? Or was it a storage drive?
What type of file system was the drive formatted as, in the previous system. Hopefully, it is NTFS.

What is the operating system on the computer that you are transferring the drive to?

As others have stated, you need to go to "Computer Management" (Windows XP, right click on "My Computer", then -> "Manage")

Then, go to "Disk Management". You'll see the drive there.
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It was a storage drive on old PC, formatted as NTFS. It DOES show in disk management as well as BIOS, but NOT under "My Computer"

 
Hey!!! I just noticed something weird under My Computer. My drive letters are C (Primary HDD) and E for optical drive. Shouldn't optical be D? The "missing" HDD was designated as D on my old PC. Maybe it's cloaked on this one? LOL
 
Originally posted by: John
Originally posted by: nweaver
he just needs to assign the partition a drive letter....
Click to expand...

Unfortunately it's not that simple. 🙁

CDC Mail Guy: (it DOES show, but as unallocated with no drive letter), I am given the options of new partition, properties and help.
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Yes...Under Computer management it DOES show as Unallocated. Now, the Q is how do I get it allocated 🙂

I right clicked in the unallocated space, went to partition, and found that there is 152586MB "available" onthis drive.
 
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