I have two internal hard drives, one factory installed 500G, and one 120G that was factory installed in a dell dimension 4600. they are both non-raid (whatever that means) First i went into my computer, and i have the list with my C: drive and E: drive next to each other, the C holding my OS and the E: holding a bunch of junk from my old computer. i right clicked the E: drive and formated it, selecting default settings. afterwards, i unsuccessfully attempted to install xp on the e: drive by booting from the xp installation disk (silly i know) it came up with a blue screen saying there was an error and to check for viruses and run chkdsk for problems. so i restarded the computer, opened the my computer folder, right clicked the E: drive, and deleted it. Delete was just one of the options available from the right click menu, although it isn't for any other drive, and so i clicked it. this is where my troubles are. the e: folder has disappeared, and cannot be accessed through command prompt, or explorer. in device manager, the drive is still there, only when i go into its properties/volumes tab, and select populate, no drive location appears in the lower window like it does for the 500g drive. also, a second attempt to install windows xp on the drive failed. I set bios up to boot from disk first, then the deleted drive, then from the standard drive. I got the same blue error screen. oh yeah, if i forgot to mention before, its connected in position 5 becuase the wire won't reach position 2. (i don't know what that means really, just that the blue cord doesn't go to the slot next to where the 500G's blue cord does) also, in command prompt, i tried to run the chckdsk program it suggested, and it says its not a recognized command. so i really have two problems. one is that i cannot access the second hard drive. and the other is that i cannot install windows xp for the purpose of dual booting and running either vista or xp on their respective hard drives i hope i didn't leave out anything. if theres anything else you need to help me. let me know.

Can you see it when you go to: Control Panel\Administrative tools\Computer Management\Disk Management

yes... and it is letting me recreate it... so thank you very much, thats one problem down... now all i need is to figure out how to install windows xp on it and im home free... (is there something specific i should do in the "new simple volume wizard", or should i just go through it all with its defualt settings?