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Not quite sure whether this is a Windows 8 or 8.1 issue or something a bit more fundamental belonging in another subforum, but here goes.
Over Xmas, my bro and me put together a new machine for me from some bits he'd upgraded and were surplus to requirements. The machine has two HDDs, the intention being to install Windows on the smaller (230GB) of the two and keep all my files/games etc on the larger, which from memory was about 500GB.
I bought an OEM copy of Windows 8 which was installed and patched up to date. One thing we didn't notice at the time and I only picked up on a couple of days later when I started using the machine in earnest was that the second HDD wasn't appearing in Windows - the 'This PC' screen in Windows just shows the 230GB drive that Windows is installed on. By that time I'd also caught a stinking fluey cold off the missus and thought "Sod, it, I'll sort it out in January ...", so here we are.
The BIOS sees the machine as having two HDDs - they show up in the scrolling stuff that appears during bootup and when you actually go into the BIOS itself - and both were partitioned correctly during the initial setup ... I watched him do it. However, Windows refuses to acknowledge the existence of the second drive - is there any obvious reason why this would be happening?
Over Xmas, my bro and me put together a new machine for me from some bits he'd upgraded and were surplus to requirements. The machine has two HDDs, the intention being to install Windows on the smaller (230GB) of the two and keep all my files/games etc on the larger, which from memory was about 500GB.
I bought an OEM copy of Windows 8 which was installed and patched up to date. One thing we didn't notice at the time and I only picked up on a couple of days later when I started using the machine in earnest was that the second HDD wasn't appearing in Windows - the 'This PC' screen in Windows just shows the 230GB drive that Windows is installed on. By that time I'd also caught a stinking fluey cold off the missus and thought "Sod, it, I'll sort it out in January ...", so here we are.
The BIOS sees the machine as having two HDDs - they show up in the scrolling stuff that appears during bootup and when you actually go into the BIOS itself - and both were partitioned correctly during the initial setup ... I watched him do it. However, Windows refuses to acknowledge the existence of the second drive - is there any obvious reason why this would be happening?
