doxtr111 Posted February 16, 2002 Share Posted February 16, 2002 This is my first post, I'm brand new so please don't laugh... While runing WinMe I used 2 10Gig hard drives. Drive 1 was operating system and drive 2 was one non-dos partition I used to store data, play around with etc. I had go back installed and it was using drive F to store it's files. I attempted to hack a program and really screwed winme up, so I bought and installed XP home. It installed and is runing perfectly except that it now ignores the 2nd hard drive and does not show it at all, although my CMOS detects it. Since XP doesn't provide for creation of a DOS boot disk (per se), how do I reformat the 2nd drive (getting rid of old Win Me files, go back, etc)? When I use an old Win98 boot disk and go to FDISK, it shows both drives, however, I don't know how to get xp to recognize it so I can have the extra storage space? Thanks for your help in advance!!! Doxtr111@pacbell.net Compaq Pent III 733 256 Ram CD Rom and Burner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mike11212 Posted February 16, 2002 Share Posted February 16, 2002 XP doesnt detect it at all its not in My COmputer or your device manager Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doxtr111 Posted February 16, 2002 Author Share Posted February 16, 2002 Nope! Only way someone would know it's there is by physically visualizing it, or from an a promt going to FDISK. Weird, huh? I thought about using the old 98 boot disk and going to fdisk, deleting the non dos partition and then creating it agin, knowing that fdisk instructs all to format the drive after exiting. Will that work? Thanks for the way quick response!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaffra Posted February 16, 2002 Share Posted February 16, 2002 so ur saying with Winme you could see the non dos partition?? wat was it ntfs? linux ext? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doxtr111 Posted February 16, 2002 Author Share Posted February 16, 2002 Actually yes I could. While Me used HD # 1 for C and D(system save) drives, I fdisked HD #2 with non dos partition so CMOS (I guess) and windows would recognize it as a non operating system drive, thereby allowing me to use it for storage. When I upgraded to XP, even though CMOS recognizes the 2nd drive under drives, once it boots it only shows HD #1 (C and Dsys restore). Helluva note, huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted February 16, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 16, 2002 you need to initilize the partion (new drive) the drive might be formatted though so you'd loose all the data on the drive! click start right click my computer choose manage choose Disk Management choose the drive and choose initialize or activate or something.... there you go.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skull Posted February 16, 2002 Share Posted February 16, 2002 So you should just be able to run fdisk, switch to the drive and remove the non-DOS partition, then create a new DOS partition, reboot your machine, load XP as usual, XP will see the drive and then you can format it from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skull Posted February 16, 2002 Share Posted February 16, 2002 Or what SHoTTa35 said, but I can't see how that will work if XP can't see the drive in the first place... I could be wrong :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doxtr111 Posted February 16, 2002 Author Share Posted February 16, 2002 Thanx to you guys/gals I'm making progress. I went to disk manager and it reflects a second 9 something gig drive and says it's healthy. HA! Doesn't show it under my computer at all, only the drive manager. The only options I have when right clicking the drive is to "delete partion" In answer to the last comment, I thought that the computer itself (CMOS or whatever) would not recognize two drives if they both had dos partitions, that's why I origionally just created a non dos partition. We are making progress, so keep 'em coming, please. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted February 16, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 16, 2002 well the only option you really have is to go back to what you had.. make a back up and format the drives. I got 20GB of temp storage on my computer if you need so holla... hope your upload isn't 2KB/s hehe but yeah.. just delete the partition... you'll loose all your stuff but if you're not on 56K then you can get it all back in no time so just do it. (i wonder if Nike is gonna sue me for that? haha.. :) cuz everyone suing everyone these days! ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doxtr111 Posted February 16, 2002 Author Share Posted February 16, 2002 Lost data on HD 2 is no problem, don't want any of it anyway, but to have two working drives(one for operating system, one for storage), doesn't the storage drive have to have only non dos partitions and not be active? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doxtr111 Posted February 16, 2002 Author Share Posted February 16, 2002 You all are soooooooo cool! I got it thru drive manager. Had to mess around, delete partitions and create logical ones and it worked. Wow! Thank you so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted February 16, 2002 Veteran Share Posted February 16, 2002 they really need to fix that in SP1 or something though... FAST. This is the third i had to sorta walk someone thru that process and with 2K wasn't nothing like that (I think) but it's so much easier to just make it automatic and install the freaking drive so it's accessable as soon as it's in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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