WinXP won't recoginize second SATA HD after WinXP reinstall?

Question

I have 2 physical drives in my computer, a 250GB and a 160 GB.
They were both visible and accessible. I reinstalled windows onto the 250 GB drive and now the other drive does not appear in "My Computer." Setup in BIOS shows there is a second drive there. The physical connections are fine, as it worked prior to the reinstall.

Question: How do I get this second disk to show up so I can access the data on it?

Thanks in advance for your help.

Answer 1

Did you enable raid in your bios and when loading XP hit f6 to load raid drivers from the driver disc that came with the SATA drive.? I have never tried to mix IDE and SATA drives but I imagine you may have to load the SATA seperately with the raid drivers and an XP partition on it and during setup give it the drive letter you want it to be then insert the IDE back in. Also, It may show as a usb drive which I have seen.

Answer 2

Go to My Computer, right-click, choose "manage". Then choose "Disk Management". The other drive should show up there. If it is at the bottom portion of the screen(unallocated), then right-click, choose new path and give it a letter for the drive(E:, F:, etc.). That should work it out. If assigning the letter to the drive does not fix the issue, then you would need to reformat and partition that drive for it to show up, but hopefully assigning drive letter does the trick.

Answer 3

I would check device manager to verify that the device is there. If it does appear and you still do not have access check cables, disk manager, power cables, etc. It could also be a failing cable or just a loose cable. Can also check to see if you have Plug in Play enabled in your Bios. It does help for some things.

Answer 4

I'm thinking install the drivers for it? Seeing as how you reinstalled the whole thing I would figure the driver would already be there though. I'd suggest reinstalling a driver for it. That's the only thing I would think of.