Not recognizing a disk drive

I have to hard drives. I had to re-install xp and afterwards, I could not
find my second drive. I went to computer management and it showed the drive
but the option was not available to assign a drive letter.

How can I solve this problem?

Charlie
Thu Feb 08 19:56:03 CST 2007

This usually happens when your hard drive is not formatted or not
partitioned.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64


"Problem with formatting merged fields"
<Problemwithformattingmergedfields@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:CC5E43D5-757C-4C3F-AC2A-E786CB1A3207@microsoft.com...
>I have to hard drives. I had to re-install xp and afterwards, I could not
> find my second drive. I went to computer management and it showed the
> drive
> but the option was not available to assign a drive letter.
>
> How can I solve this problem?

Problemwithformattingmergedfields
Thu Feb 08 20:55:01 CST 2007

I don't think that is the problem. When I tried to install XP, the drive did
not show up.

"Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:

> This usually happens when your hard drive is not formatted or not
> partitioned.
>
> --
> Charlie.
> http://msmvps.com/xperts64
>
>
> "Problem with formatting merged fields"
> <Problemwithformattingmergedfields@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
> message news:CC5E43D5-757C-4C3F-AC2A-E786CB1A3207@microsoft.com...
> >I have to hard drives. I had to re-install xp and afterwards, I could not
> > find my second drive. I went to computer management and it showed the
> > drive
> > but the option was not available to assign a drive letter.
> >
> > How can I solve this problem?
>

NuTCrAcKeR
Thu Feb 08 22:08:24 CST 2007

start looking in the bios to see if the hardware knows the drive is there.

Are there any yellow bangs (!) in the device manager? You may need to
update/install drivers for some device before you can use it.

- NuTs

"Problem with formatting merged fields"
<Problemwithformattingmergedfields@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:BFC161B5-B38B-4E47-8388-DCA7197F0BB6@microsoft.com...
>I don't think that is the problem. When I tried to install XP, the drive
>did
> not show up.
>
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
>
>> This usually happens when your hard drive is not formatted or not
>> partitioned.
>>
>> --
>> Charlie.
>> http://msmvps.com/xperts64
>>
>>
>> "Problem with formatting merged fields"
>> <Problemwithformattingmergedfields@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:CC5E43D5-757C-4C3F-AC2A-E786CB1A3207@microsoft.com...
>> >I have to hard drives. I had to re-install xp and afterwards, I could
>> >not
>> > find my second drive. I went to computer management and it showed the
>> > drive
>> > but the option was not available to assign a drive letter.
>> >
>> > How can I solve this problem?
>>

Charlie
Fri Feb 09 12:53:01 CST 2007

If you can't see it during install, you need to use F6 and load your
drivers. Many current SATA controllers are treated as "RAID" controllers,
even if not being used for RAID arrays, and require separately installed
drivers.

--
Charlie.
http://msmvps.com/xperts64


"Problem with formatting merged fields"
<Problemwithformattingmergedfields@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
message news:BFC161B5-B38B-4E47-8388-DCA7197F0BB6@microsoft.com...
>I don't think that is the problem. When I tried to install XP, the drive
>did
> not show up.
>
> "Charlie Russel - MVP" wrote:
>
>> This usually happens when your hard drive is not formatted or not
>> partitioned.
>>
>> --
>> Charlie.
>> http://msmvps.com/xperts64
>>
>>
>> "Problem with formatting merged fields"
>> <Problemwithformattingmergedfields@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
>> message news:CC5E43D5-757C-4C3F-AC2A-E786CB1A3207@microsoft.com...
>> >I have to hard drives. I had to re-install xp and afterwards, I could
>> >not
>> > find my second drive. I went to computer management and it showed the
>> > drive
>> > but the option was not available to assign a drive letter.
>> >
>> > How can I solve this problem?
>>