System not seeing hard drive

[carlmccut]

Over the last few weeks my system crashed. I installed 2 new SATA hard drives. everything went fine. I am now reinstalling programs and etc. One thing though when I go to "my computer" there is only one hard drive. In device mgr it shows both. What am I missing?

[chipdip]

Is the hard drive that doesn't show up in "My Computer" formatted with a filesystem that can be recognised by Windows? (FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Etc...)

[carlmccut]

I formatted everything at set up

[carlmccut]

When I installed the new HDD's I formatted everything when I installed XP pro. Can I now reformat that drive with out reinstalling everything.

[Panama Red]

Assuming this is a non-Raid configuration, Carl, you should be good to format the problem drive in Disk Management.

[carlmccut]

Yup non raid. What do I need to do? Brain is worn out today:rolleyes:

[carlmccut]

Thanks RED I found it. Not thinking today. Was in conferences all day.

HDD is formatting. One question. Will the system reallocate drice letters?

[Panama Red]

Yup, new letters will be assigned. You can change them to what you want - all but the C drive.

[carlmccut]

cool Thanks