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2 hard drives installed only one showing up in my computer(vista)

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  • 24-12-2007 2:57am
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    etcetc
    Registered Users Posts: 392 ✭✭


    dont know what i done wrong

    both drives worked fine in xp but after installing vista only one shows up now

    device mgr says both devices working fine

    any ideas


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    quaidox
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭quaidox


    maybe you need to assign a drive letter to the drive thats missing in the device manager?


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    Sparkpea
    Registered Users Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Sparkpea


    is it showing 2 drives in the bios? have you jumpers on the drive for master & slave and both of them not master?


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    Saruman
    Registered Users Posts: 11,389 ✭✭✭✭Saruman


    Sparkpea wrote: »
    is it showing 2 drives in the bios? have you jumpers on the drive for master & slave and both of them not master?

    Im going to assume he has not made hardware changes since he said they were both working fine in XP. Im going to assume all he has done is install vista. He has said both drives show up in device manager so that should let you know that the jumpers are not an issue :D

    Is this right etcetc? Did you just upgrade from XP to vista or are we talking a complete wipe and reinstall? What do you see in the disk management snap in? You know.. right click computer click manage. This is where you will set a drive letter if it has not been assigned.
    Its possible you wiped the partition during install so you need to create a new partition but until you tell us what you see in there then there is nothing more we can tell you.


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    Sparkpea
    Registered Users Posts: 1,118 ✭✭✭Sparkpea


    Is the drive FAT or NTFS? I read somewhere else that vista prefers NTFS and people seem to be having the same problems you've mentioned, either with seagate/maxtor drives and external drives - some are reading dynamic and offline in disk manager.


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    zod
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,025 ✭✭✭zod


    look in "disk management" in device manager .. on the bottom on the left


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    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭RoyalMarine


    it put it down to jumper's and cable's.


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    etcetc
    Registered Users Posts: 392 ✭✭etcetc


    thanks for input guys

    done a complete wipe and reinstall of vista

    NFTS

    Missing hard drive is showing up in disk mgt as disk 0 unallocated

    i presume i need to assign it a drive letter

    can anybody tell me how do i assign a drive letter to it?


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    quaidox
    Registered Users Posts: 399 ✭✭quaidox


    in disk management you should be able to right click where it says disk 0 and then select change drive letter and path.
    i assume you installed vista on drive 1 ??


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    PogMoThoin
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    Just right click it, assign a letter & quick format


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    etcetc
    Registered Users Posts: 392 ✭✭etcetc


    thanks all:)

    got it sorted

    both drives show up now


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