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john04
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_ 		22. November 2005 @ 17:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I just did a fresh installation of WINXP SP2, then plugged in the other HD (seagate)-previously used so formated w/data. Device Manager and Disk Management detects the drive (healthy Active NTFS, but does not have a drive letter, only a label). For some reason the drive does not appear in 'My Computer' I understand that DiscWizard would fix this problem, but requires reformating the drive, but then I would lose 60gb of data???????? what's a person to do, any help would be greatly appreciated. thnks
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Auslander
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_ 		22. November 2005 @ 17:55 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
does the hard drive appear in your device manager?
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GrandpaBW
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_ 		22. November 2005 @ 18:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Assign a drive letter to the drive.
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john04
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_ 		23. November 2005 @ 13:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
the drive in detected in both device manager and disk management.
Disk managemnt won't let me assign a drive letter the only delete partition option is available.
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GrandpaBW
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_ 		23. November 2005 @ 13:28 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Where do you have that other drive plugged into the motherboard? Is it set to master or to slave?
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Xian
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_ 		24. November 2005 @ 06:56 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
A couple possibilities where I have seen this problem before

1) Both hard drives are set to active. Setting a hard drive to active means you are making it bootable. If it isn't your boot drive it doesn't need to be set to active. I have seen Windows get confused before with multiple hard drives set to active

2) Raid configuration issue - Windows see the 2nd drive as part of a RAID set instead of a standalone drive. Some motherboards allow you to disable RAID in the BIOS, so if you aren't using it you really don't need it enabled
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