Re: Drive does not show in explorer.
From: R. C. White (RCWhite_at_msn.com)
Date: 08/30/04
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Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 11:36:32 -0500
Hi, BigBW.
As Rho_1r says, you may need to use Disk Management to initialize the
secondary HDD, depending on how the 30 GB HDD was used previously. The key
to your frustration, though, is probably in this line:
> It is not even assigned a drive letter. C is the bigger drive
> and d and e are cd roms..
A hard disk drive is NEVER assigned a "drive" letter. Use Disk Management
to create one or more partitions and/or logical drives on that HDD. Then it
will assign a "drive" letter to each primary partition (and to each logical
drive in the extended partition, if you create one). The term "drive" is
used to mean different things at different times. But a "drive letter"
always refers to a partition (or logical drive), not to an entire HDD, even
if there is only one partition on the HDD.
Also, be aware that WinXP has rules for how to assign "drive" letters. Each
time you reboot, it assigns letters all over again, depending on how many
physical drives are plugged in and how they are partitioned. So, a CD-ROM
drive that was D: yesterday might be E: today, after you've plugged in and
partitioned that secondary HD. When you use Disk Management to create the
first partition on that HDD, it might be assigned the letter F: (after your
existing D: and E:). But, when you then reboot, your new partition might
become D: and your CD/DVD drives E: and F:. If you use Disk Management to
specifically assign "drive" letters, WinXP will try to assign those same
letters each time you reboot. You will have to decide whether you want your
CDs to remain D: and E:, forcing your new HD partition to F:. I prefer to
reserve the first alphabet letters for HD partitions, moving CDs to V: or
W:, for example, but the choice of letters is up to you.
But if that 30 GB HD already has at least one partition, it - and its
files - should show up in Disk Management and Windows Explorer after you
initialize the HDD. See the Help file from Disk Management for details.
RC
-- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX rc@corridor.net Microsoft Windows MVP "bigbw" <bigbw@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:4B457014-7EEC-45E1-8C34-4249410BE089@microsoft.com... >I did a fresh install of XP and then installed SP2. I have two hard >drives, > an 80 and 30gb. After everything was installed, the smaller drive > (secondary > on ide channel) does not show up in explorer. It is in sys bios, shows up > in > device manager and shows up in disk managment consol and they all say it > is > working fine. It is not even assigned a drive letter. C is the bigger > drive > and d and e are cd roms.. Anybody have any ideas.
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