just reinstalled windows xp home. now it wont see my second hard drive, any ideas?
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If XP cant see the drive, then neither can the bios system. Try entering the Bios set up and seeing if the drive appears there.\n\nIt may be that you damaged the Partition Table.\n\nTry right clicking on "my computer" then clicking "manage"\n\nThen click on "disks" on the left, and see if the drive is there, but without a Partition table. If the drive is there, and you create a partition you will only be able to access data that was on that drive by using a data recovery tool.\n\nOr simply it could be that the drive has been damaged, or disconnected in transit.
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If you have a second computer available, with both computers turned off, remove the hard drive from the broken computer.  Unplug the cable on the back of the CD drive of the second computer and plug them into the broken hard drive,\n\nBoot the second computer and you should be able to see the files on the broken hard drive and copy them over.  \n\nOnce you have the files off, you put the broken drive back into the original computer, format it and reinstall XP.
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If you want to start over then just reformat the drive and reinstall Win XP
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Make sure your CD drive is set as a slave or secondary master drive in your BIOS, and also make sure that it's first in the boot sequence. If it can't detect the drive, then there's a hardware problem with the CD drive itself. If you can get that to work, then try using the Repair feature on the XP install CD. If that doesn't work, then just reinstall Windows.
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Do not delete the C drive. Use this drive to store files.\n\nIf you want you can reinstall XP, but that is a different situation.
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Please don't use partition magic. !!!\nThat is known to ruin your scenario.\n\nFirst of all, from my understandiing, you previously had 1 Harddrive and you partitioned it in 2 areas WHILE installing.\n\n- Okay, if you only have one harddrive in your pc, I recommend you to leave it that way, cause what if your computer doesn't work anymore(your windows/linux) messes up. You could always place your important files on the second harddrive and reformat the first hardrive if you ever need. That will reduce problems.\n\n- But assuming you still want to merge C and D, I recommend formatting both harddrives . Sorry mate, thats the only secure way. While reinstalling your operating system, you could have the option of making it partions (c and d or more) or leave it as one full hardrive (by deleting partition from d)\n\n- If you use partition magic, 3 out of 2 people fail. Partition Magic doesn't know pretty well how to retreat the harddrives, it will become slower. It is not simply saying to move the pointer of the 2nd hd to the 1st. They are completly different set of pointers. On the minimum case Partition Magic will work, but your taking risks.\n\nSo what do I recommend? Backup your files to somewhere, and restore them after your fresh install.\n\nOr you have two separate harddrives that you want to make into 1 big harddrive.\n- You need to use a Raid Controller to merge both harddrives into one big driver. Search for RAID5. And follow instructions there.
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What I would do is re-install Windows and all your software on the new HD and slave your current crashed HD without formatting see if you can recover any data from it.  Here are instructions on HD installation. http://www.basichardware.com/HowTo_Install_Hard_Drive.html
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u have .. 2 ways .. to install partition magic program .. and it easy tool\n\nor when u setup the windows xp .. u can delete the exist partition and then create new on in the first screen in setup steps..
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Can you add a little more info?\n\nIs D a CD&#92;DVD drive? Another partition on your hard drive partition?  Another hard drive itself?\n\nAs cliched as it sounds, if you are running a Windows system, rebooting may repair.
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This has happened to me on several occasions. Anyways  i recommend you install Windows XP HOme on another partition and copy all your school stuff to the new partition, and don't format, just to be safe. After you did that you can copy the missing files back to your old OS and remove the new copy. Hope this helps.
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i am a hardware tech.\nit is very simple.just follow these steps.\ni am assuming this is a  second hard drive.\n1)connect it to the computer.\n2)turn it on.\n3)enter the bios.\n4)enable the disk\n5)restart\n6)boot to windows as usual\n7)you should be able to see the new hard drive in my computer\n8)format it.\n9)you are done.\nif you need further assistence..\nwrite to me at:\naanonymouus@yahoo.com
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Open the case.  Look at the JUMPERS on the first drive.  It is set either to MASTER or CABLE SELECT.    \n\nThen locate the place where the 2nd drive will be installed.  There should be a duplicate cable for it.   If the First drive is set to MASTER, then set the 2nd drive to SLAVE.  If the First drive is set to CABLE SELECT, then set the 2nd drive to CABLE SELECT.   (But use the 2nd position on the ribbon cable). \n\nConnect the ribbon cable and power to the 2nd drive.   \n\nTurn on your computer and watch closely.  You should see TEXT that appears briefly that the secondary drive appears.  Don't worry if you miss that.   \n\nLook for the new drive under My Computer.
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While reinstalling fresh windows XP, select the C drive partion to install OS, this wont delete the files on D drive, make sure you dont delete the partitions..or you have to struggle to get those files back...\n\nHowever if you have by mistake formatted the hard disk, try using some recovery softwares..\nThat would help you..
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yea check ALL the drives.\nif not, u r screwed, and might need to format ur hdd or get a new 1
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The same thing happened to my computer awhile back.  Your computer has probably lost system files.  I booted to the Windows XP Disk to re-install XP and selected 'Repair an existing XP installation.'  You won't lose any files except any Windows Updates that were released after your copy of Windows.\n\nMake sure you BOOT to the XP CD.  After it checks your system and loads installation files, it will ask if you want to install a fresh copy of XP or REPAIR (not re-install) the existing installation - select Repair.
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use "DiskInternals Undelete" to recover the lost data to another proper drive, then you can reformat the c: drive and the it should work fine.. install windows then copy the recovered data back to the formatted drive
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What do you have - XP, NT or 2000?\nIn any case it looks like you need to use an emergency repair procedure or simply try to upgrade existing version with the same version. You could avoid loosing your data.\nIf it won't help you have more options:\n1. Try to connect your HD to a different PC and save data\n2. If this is not an option - reinstall fresh without formatting, it will preserve your data. Copy data, and reinstall with formatting for the clean installation