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Fibre Optix
09-25-2007, 06:47 PM
I have 2 sata hard drives in my system, but XP only sees the one. BIOS sees both.
I did this once a while back, something to do with mapping I can't remember and my searches come up with nothing.

How do I add the 2nd drive?

Cricket
09-25-2007, 06:57 PM
Is the second HDD seen in Disk Management?

Has it been partitioned and formatted yet?

:) Cricket

Fibre Optix
09-25-2007, 07:40 PM
I'm using it for storing data not OS does it need to be formatted?
I see the second in device manager, whats disk manager?

Fibre Optix
09-25-2007, 07:47 PM
I'm an idiot...Yes I do see it in Disk Management...... (Brain Fart) it says unallocated.

Cricket
09-25-2007, 07:53 PM
Now you have to create an extended partition and then format the partition in order for Windows to use the hard drive.

How to use Disk Management to configure basic disks in Windows XP (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000)

How to partition and format a hard disk in Windows XP (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313348)

Another guide. (http://www.bleepingcomputer.com/tutorials/tutorial116.html)

:) Cricket

Fibre Optix
09-25-2007, 07:58 PM
thanks dude.