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2 Hard drives in pc, only 1 shows in My Computer
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Posted by: atomic_derailer
My pc has two hard drives in it, both NTFS. Only one shows up in My Computer. Any ideas on how to solve this issue?
Posted by: goranpaa
The drive that you dont see? Is it a new unformatted one?
Posted by: PsychoMonkey
Also, is the drive an IDE drive or SATA?
Posted by: atomic_derailer
i didn't format it recently...it's been running fine before...all of a sudden it just didn't show up on My computer....it's a sata drive...
Posted by: PsychoMonkey
I have a SATA drive and when that happens, I have to go under Administrative Tools=>Computer Management and reactivate the drive.
Might be the same in your situation.
Posted by: atomic_derailer
how do you exactly reactivate it?
Posted by: PsychoMonkey
In WinXp, you go to Control Panel=>Administrative Tools=>Computer Management. Under computer management, look for "Disk Management". It should show you if windows at least notices that there is a drive there. If it sees it, right-click it and try to reactivate disk. If you don't see it there, check device manager to make sure your SATA controller doesn't have any coflicts.
Posted by: atomic_derailer
I see it under disk mngt, but it doesn't have a drive letter...it says unallocated
Posted by: PsychoMonkey
Try this, right-click where it says Unallocated and go to "change drive letters and paths". Click add and assign it a drive letter. If it lets you, try seeing if your drive lets you access it. If it doesn't, sounds like something happen to your drive.
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