winxp upg issue

So is there any reason why my 2nd hard drive (internal) is not being seen after wiping my C (OS) drive and upgrading to winxp? The hardware device manager see's it but says the partition is jacked/foreign, but the software wont see it.

Help?

Hmm Check this out

http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/68670.html

http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/54661.html

http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/77994.html

Im not sure if any of that will help.

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Hmm Check this out

http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/68670.html

http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/54661.html

http://computing.net/windowsxp/wwwboard/forum/77994.html

Im not sure if any of that will help.

S

Fyi for the computer challaged. Computing.net is a great website for common issue resolution.

S

Fyi for the computer challaged. Computing.net is a great website for common issue resolution.

S

I'll ask my father about those, but yeah tonight I tried checking the disk drive on my external that works fine and it refused to see it. =/

I'll ask my father about those, but yeah tonight I tried checking the disk drive on my external that works fine and it refused to see it. =/

Click Start, then right click My Computer and choose manage. This will open the computer management window. On the left side under the "Storage" heading, click on disk management. Look at the right side of the pane. At the top will be your logical drives, at the bottom will be your physical hard drives. Under the physical harddrive section, do you see the hard drive? If so, does it say something like "healthy" or "unknown". If it doesnt say healthy, there is most likely your problem. It may be that the drive need formatted, which you can do by right clicking the unhealthy drive and going from there (providing there is nothing on the disk that you dont want to lose).

If it can see the physical drive, I'm not sure what its problem is short of corruption. That drive wasnt using a weird file format was it? XP can read NTFS and Fat32, not sure about old school Fat.

Anyway, hope that helps.

Click Start, then right click My Computer and choose manage. This will open the computer management window. On the left side under the "Storage" heading, click on disk management. Look at the right side of the pane. At the top will be your logical drives, at the bottom will be your physical hard drives. Under the physical harddrive section, do you see the hard drive? If so, does it say something like "healthy" or "unknown". If it doesnt say healthy, there is most likely your problem. It may be that the drive need formatted, which you can do by right clicking the unhealthy drive and going from there (providing there is nothing on the disk that you dont want to lose).

If it can see the physical drive, I'm not sure what its problem is short of corruption. That drive wasnt using a weird file format was it? XP can read NTFS and Fat32, not sure about old school Fat.

Anyway, hope that helps.

My dad walked me through just that, Mylec and I gots nothing. =/ Showed up as foreign after i moved it to the external too. Ah well, thanks!

My dad walked me through just that, Mylec and I gots nothing. =/ Showed up as foreign after i moved it to the external too. Ah well, thanks!

XP will see FAT however it'll want to convert it to FAT32 at the very least.

Generally not recommended for drives under 1GB.

XP will see FAT however it'll want to convert it to FAT32 at the very least.

Generally not recommended for drives under 1GB.