two hard drives, only one showing...

[shiato storm]

I have two hard drives attached at the moment, both are found during mobo boot up and can see them both when I go to Hardware manager BUT in explorer only the one is showing up...
what can I do to get the second showing as I need access to it fairly urgently!
cheers

[streetster]

are you running xp/2003...?

what you have to do, is get into the harddrive management thigny (type diskmgmt.msc into the start-> run thing), select the harddrive, right click and 'assign drive letter..."

i found that out earlier today

mark

edit: my thread

[shiato storm]

i'm running win98...
just trying as you suggested by allocating drive label/letter...-
damn, nope, it won't allow me to change either drive letters. it sees them both but options are greyed out.

...just checking for drivers on the net...

[streetster]

is it NTFS? maybe windows98 cant see it cos of that?

mark

[shiato storm]

nope both are fat32, and can't seem to see it on winXP either...

tried drivers - no luck there...any more suggestions? are tehre specialists out there that can extract data from hard drives?

[shiato storm]

i'll be more specific - one with Win98 on is Maxtor Fireball 3, and data is on a seagate (baracuda? an old one i think...)
in device manager they come up as 'generic disk drive'...could be the cause of prob perhaps...

[Pita^Norf]

Have you tried booting up from DOS to see if both drives are accessible ?

Also try running FDISK to see if it can access the said drive.

[overfloe]

both are "fighting" to be teh Master? check cable & jumpers on each HDD.. sorry i know it sounds dumb but just to make sure

[Howard]

Do they show up in the POST?

Are they actually on? Many a time where something has been not plugged in correctly or properly for me

[streetster]

when you boot windowsXP make sure you assign the drive letter like i said earlier could be windows playing silly buggers,

mark