installing second hard drive

Question

my main drive (maxtor maxline plus II 250gb) crashed on me and I have replaced it with a Seagate 160gb sata drive. problem is that my second drive (250 g maxtor) now doesnt show up im my computer but is there on the boot and in the systems manager how do i get thie second drive back to accessible?

osprey4 · Answer

Bruce:   Since the term 'crash' can two million different things depending on who you talk to, have you actually run a diagnostic on your old drive to verify it's still sound?

brucep216 · Answer

yes it is definitely toast multiple read errors when running checkdisk.
My problem is accessing my second drive that was up and running before changing the main drive and has a lot of programs and data.
It is shown when the compuet boots up and it is shown on the system device manager but i cant access it.
I remember having this issue when i first installed the second drive (after a power supply failure) but cant remember the fix

osprey4 · Answer

You didn't answer my question. Did you run the Dell diagnostics? Your data may simply not be retrievable.

brucep216 · Answer

yes i ran the diagnostics the drive is toast there are so many read errors that it takes over 30 minutes to get through that section. I will have a professional company recover data from that drive Right now my issue is getting the second drive running It was the slave drive to the original and shows up on boot and in the system manager but not in 'my computer'

Nick Bowers · Answer

Hi, Is the jumper set to slave? Cheers

brucep216 · Answer

no jumpers it's a SATA drive

Nick Bowers · Answer

ah, go to disk managment and set it a drive letter. it may also need a new partition. Nick

brucep216 · Answer

ok where do i find disk management XP

osprey4 · Answer

Control panel, administrative tools.   Sorry, I was under the impression you were trying to save data from this drive.

brucep216 · Answer

ok im there the drive is shown but no volume letter is showing and it wont let me assign one

Nick Bowers · Answer

Hi, Please explain it wont let me assing a drive letter. List any errors ect. I am guessing that you have worked out to right click on the drive and select 'change drive letter and paths'? then click add? Nick

brucep216 · Answer

the change drive letter option in not available (ghosted) I have also tried going throught the disk part command with no success

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