hard drive NOT recognized in computer but IS recognized in disk mgmnt.


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    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
       #1

    hard drive NOT recognized in computer but IS recognized in disk mgmnt.


    I just rebuilt an old system using Windows 7 Home Premium after using WinXP pro for many years. The primary hard drive is WDC 150 Mg and Win7 is installed and updated to current with SP1. I dropped a second WDC hard drive in, formatted and was going to use it for a 2nd backup unit. Both of these are sata. Both hard drives are recognized by Disk Management but when I select Computer on the start menu ONLY the primary 150 Mg drive is recognized. If I plug in an external drive, both Computer and Disk Management recognizes the external drive. How do I have Win7 recognize my backup WDC drive so I can use it.

    Thank you
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    Windows XP x86 Service Pack 2
       #2

    PERSIL said:
    I just rebuilt an old system using Windows 7 Home Premium after using WinXP pro for many years. The primary hard drive is WDC 150 Mg and Win7 is installed and updated to current with SP1. I dropped a second WDC hard drive in, formatted and was going to use it for a 2nd backup unit. Both of these are sata. Both hard drives are recognized by Disk Management but when I select Computer on the start menu ONLY the primary 150 Mg drive is recognized. If I plug in an external drive, both Computer and Disk Management recognizes the external drive. How do I have Win7 recognize my backup WDC drive so I can use it.

    Thank you
    Had similarities on my pc.

    Goto BIOS, there you have 4 options.

    Primary Master
    Secondary Master

    Primary Slave
    Secondary Slave

    Set it as follows:

    Primary Master -----> Main Boot HDD
    Secondary Master -----> EMPTY

    Primary Slave -----> CD/DVD RAM
    Secondary Slave -----> Secondary backup HDD


    Hpe it helps!

    Gala
      My Computer


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    10 Pro x64
       #3

    if the drive is seen in disk management it may just not be assigned a letter yet, right click on it and choose set letter path and then add one.
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