Hard drive problems

[blazejowski]

I have recently wiped both of my hard drives & reinstalled XP, due to too many viruses. This finally got rid of all my virus problems, but now my comp will not pick up my second HD - it's larger, and I use it for games/music/etc. I have installed XP on my smaller one, along with my programs, but for whatever reason I cannot access (or see) that other HD.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

 

[juscause]

And all of us Mac people are asking "what's a virus"

 

[threepeat]

If you completely wiped out your second hard drive, including the partition information, you may need to repartition it.

If you go to "Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management" and then click on "Disk Management," do you see the second hard drive there? If you do and it's not partitioned, right-click it and set the partition from the pop-up menu.

If you don't see it, you should go into the BIOS and see if you can see it there. If the second hard drive is no longer even in the BIOS, it's probably hardware-dead.

 

[Ghostwheel1969]

If you completely wiped out your second hard drive, including the partition information, you may need to repartition it.

If you go to "Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management" and then click on "Disk Management," do you see the second hard drive there? If you do and it's not partitioned, right-click it and set the partition from the pop-up menu.

If you don't see it, you should go into the BIOS and see if you can see it there. If the second hard drive is no longer even in the BIOS, it's probably hardware-dead.

I think the solution above is probably the answer, if you did "wipe" both of your drives clean. If there's no data or operating system on a secondary drive, it won't show up on your system at all, in "My Computer" or elsewhere.

If this doesn't work, perhaps taking the secondary drive into a service depot would be helpful, but I think you'll find that the above is more than sufficient to solve the problem. Most of the time, the drive is simply not accessible by the OS, rather than the drive being damaged or curtailed in some way.

Good luck with it; hope the drive is well. We all need space for porn. ;-)

 

[blazejowski]

If you completely wiped out your second hard drive, including the partition information, you may need to repartition it.

If you go to "Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Computer Management" and then click on "Disk Management," do you see the second hard drive there? If you do and it's not partitioned, right-click it and set the partition from the pop-up menu.

Thanks for the info - my computer connection called me last night & told me that exact same thing, now all is well in Blazejowskiland....

And no, I'm not enough of a douchebag to have a Mac....