Slave HDD not detecting

[nolimit]

Hi

I just re-installted windows xp home and the 2nd Sata hdd (slave) doesn't doesn't show on my computer but it shows up on device manager.

Setting Sata HDD on IDE mode in the mobo bios have this sort of effect?

 

[rpstewart]

Check in Disk Management, the drive may just need imported as a foreign disk.

 

[nolimit]

i got a bad feeling i might have installted windows on my backup sata 2 hdd (slave) and the master (connected to sata 1) is actually empty. because windows is installted on slave there some kind of corruption and therefore it doesn't show up.

If this is the case all my photos have been deleted!

fingers crossed.


EDIT:

I managed to format my 2nd hdd with all the photos, music and documents.
Having 2 same hdd as master and slave is really bad idea, the code on my 2hdd were very similar!