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Detect 2 hard drive in Win NT?
Name: streetguy Date: February 16, 2004 at 18:30:26 Pacific OS: Win NT CPU/Ram: P4 512 Ram
Comment:
The original OEM package bought comes with the win XP OS. However I have formatted and installed Win NT. Before the installation of win NT, previously win XP is able to detect both my 40 GB hard disk in "MY COMPUTER". However after the instllation i cannot detect both 40 GB hard drives on win NT at "My Computer". I have also partitioned the first hard drive to 4 GB and 36GB but cannot detect the second 40 GB hard drive. "My Computer" shows only the C: D: and E:(CD-ROM). Does anyone know what I can do about this??
Name: Jennifer SUMN Date: February 17, 2004 at 10:54:54 Pacific
Reply:
What file system did you make the OS Partition?
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Response Number 2
Name: Steve Dunn Date: February 17, 2004 at 12:58:50 Pacific
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Have you partitioned the second drive? - it won't appear in My computer until you do (disk administrator - or just run windisk.exe to do this).
If it was partitioned already, did it have fat32 partition? (NT can't read fat32 - if this is the cae and there's data on there you want, go to http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfswin98.shtml - it will let you read the fat32 partition (you can then back it up & repartition/reformat it as NTFS)
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Response Number 3
Name: trvlr Date: February 17, 2004 at 13:30:32 Pacific
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Have you also installed either the updated atapi.sys (from NT sp4) or NT sp4 (or later) complete (typically sp6/6).
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