Formatted my C drive, and put on windows. My D drive(20gigs) is no where 2b found but it is in Device Manager.

Question

I reformatted my hard drive called C. I then put windows XP back on it. I also have another hard drive that used to be called "D" but after I formatted my C hard drive, D was no where to be found. Instead my CD-ROM took the place of it.
I checked in "My Computer"- there is only "C" BUT device manager and system info both recognize that there are two hard drives Maxtor 2BO....*(My old D(20gig)) and Maxtor 6YO..... (My C)I even tried running a Maxtor Diagnostic Boot up Floppy, and what do you know, according to this ******* disc both hard drives are there and working fine and dandy. and yes i reformatted my C twice over after this shpeel. I have no way of accessing this hard drive becuase in "My Computer", there is no other hard drive but C. This is outrageous becuase my whole life is stored on that other drive. HELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLPPPPP! PLEEEEEEEEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

If you have an external drive chassis I would take that drive out of the computer and put it in the chassis and see if you can gain access to the files on the drive. If you can't then your file table got screwed up by XP. I've seen this happen before with people that try re-installing XP on systems with more than one physical drive. It doesn't make any sense at all but like I said I've seen it before. If this is the case then your best hope right now to save the data on that drive is to get some kind of data recovery software that can rebuild the file table or take the drive to a data recovery shop.
Either way, it's probably best to remove the drive from the computer.

If you can see the data from the external chassis then you could have a bad power supply or damaged IDE cable in your PC. It's pretty common for 80pin IDE cables to short out in dual-drive systems. Look for holes in the cable. There should not be any. Shorted cables will have gaps or burned out spots on the cable. Whenever possible use the newest cables that you have that came with your hard drive. HDD manufacturers always put quality cables in with their drives since they have a vested interest in the performance.

Answer 2

If you did not change any jumper settings, you could get there two ways. One would be to use Partition Manager or Partition Magic, and "mount" the drive. The other, which I have had to do a few times with thumb drives, would be as follows:
Click on start, run, type in cmd, type e: If you are able to see the e: drive type in dir. (If not e: try f:, g: and so on) This should show the content of the drive. If the drive is there go back to your desktop and right click, go to new shortcut, and when the window pops up for the path type in e: and hit enter. This will allow you get to the drive.

Answer 3

visit performance and upkeep in cotrol panel. click on Admistrative equipment then click onComputer administration. Then choose disk administration. Initialize the rigidity and partion the rigidity. Then format the rigidity assign the rigidity letter and commence up the ameliorations.

Answer 4

I would disconnect the second hard drive, then uninstall the drivers for it, and reboot then when you reconnect it windows should detect it.