I am running windows xp 32bit, my main c drive is ok but i added another hard drive both sata.In the bios it shows as being a slave drive and is enabled. When i look in my computer the c drive is there but no other drive.Any Ideas?
XP hard drive not dectected
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Go into Computer Managment (Control Panel > Admin tools > Computer Mgmt)
Go into Disk Management
You'll probably see DISK 0 being your current C Drive and should be DISK 1 as your "unallocated" drive (but might be another number). Whatever you do make sure you work on the correct disk! You'll need to initialise the drive first (right click on the DISK name and click initialise) then right click on the bit to the right where it shows the capacity and choose to Create Simple Volume - follow through the wizard that pops up and that should be that.
Go into Disk Management
You'll probably see DISK 0 being your current C Drive and should be DISK 1 as your "unallocated" drive (but might be another number). Whatever you do make sure you work on the correct disk! You'll need to initialise the drive first (right click on the DISK name and click initialise) then right click on the bit to the right where it shows the capacity and choose to Create Simple Volume - follow through the wizard that pops up and that should be that.