HHD gone missing ?

jamjar · 17 Dec 2011 at 17:13

Hi All i have reinstalled windows 7 on my dell laptop i have 2 HHD but only 1 is showing up where the OS is installed any ideas ?

Orcvader · 17 Dec 2011 at 19:12

Is it physically one drive or one drive split into two partitions? If the new install is now the combined size of the two previous drives, then that means you only had one HDD to begin with, and the old install split the HDD to two partitons.

jamjar · 17 Dec 2011 at 19:28

Orcvader said:
Is it physically one drive or one drive split into two partitions? If the new install is now the combined size of the two previous drives, then that means you only had one HDD to begin with, and the old install split the HDD to two partitons.

It is 2 drives each are 500gig in size

Hyburnate · 17 Dec 2011 at 19:30

Disk management?

agw_01 · 17 Dec 2011 at 19:42

Hyburnate said:
Disk management?

This.

If you've just reinstalled Windows you may need to allocate the other drive a drive letter before you can access it.

jamjar · 17 Dec 2011 at 20:50

agw_01 said:
This.

If you've just reinstalled Windows you may need to allocate the other drive a drive letter before you can access it.

how do i do this ?

Deleted member 77746 · 17 Dec 2011 at 21:05

Hyburnate said:
Disk management?

jamjar said:
how do i do this ?

Hyburnate · 17 Dec 2011 at 21:08

Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK, then click Disk Management.

d_brennen · 17 Dec 2011 at 21:11

Or right click Computer in the start menu and select Manage, Disk Management

agw_01 · 17 Dec 2011 at 21:18

jamjar said:
how do i do this ?

Hyburnate said:
Click Start, click Run, type compmgmt.msc, and then click OK, then click Disk Management.

After that, right click the drive in question and choose 'Change Drive Letter'

You'll then have the option to add or change the drive letter.

jamjar · 17 Dec 2011 at 21:22

agw_01 said:
After that, right click the drive in question and choose 'Change Drive Letter'

You'll then have the option to add or change the drive letter.

ok thanks ..thats done it ! i can see it in the hard disc drives now