Re: Second Hard Drive Lost After Reinstall

From: Keith (keith_at_nospam.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: 11/11/04 

Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 08:40:21 -0000

Brian Thorn wrote:
> Hi all...
>
> I've been reading through older messages in this group, but I can't
> find an answer to this particular problem.
>
> My brother's computer has two hard drives, a 200 gig and an old 30 gig
> he was using as backup storage. He had to reinstall Windows XP after a
> virus/worm infestation (after mistakenly turning off his Norton
> firewall for a couple of days.)
>
> Prior to reinstalling, Windows XP booted from the 200 gig, which had
> two partitions on it. The 30 gig drive was working normally.
>
> When reinstalling, he made the 200 gig one big partition but now the
> 30 gig does not appear in My Computer. Disk Management sees it, but
> the only option not ghosted out is Delete Partition. Both drives were
> and are formatted in NTFS.
>
> Is there any way to make Windows XP use this harddrive without losing
> the data on it?
>
> Any help or pointers will be appreciated.
>
> Brian

Has the 30GB drive been assigned a drive letter? . If not assign it thru
disk management

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