Cannot detect second hard drive after upgrade to Win XP 64-bit

October 22, 2007

Hello,

I recently upgraded my computer with a new motherboard and processor, but I

kept my original two hard drives (one primary, one slave). Once the

motherboard and processor was installed, I reinstalled windows xp. Prior to

the upgrade I was running windows xp professional (32-bit) and decided to

upgrade to windows xp professional (64-bit). During setup windows was able

to see both hard drives. Windows was installed on the primary hard drive.

Naturally, I had to reformat my primary hard drive, the second hard drive was

not formatted. After installation I can only see the primary hard drive

(C:). There is no icon or drive letter for the second hard drive (which

should be labeled E:). I can see the drive in "device manager" and "computer

management" but I cannot assign a drive letter. As far as I know, the hard

drive and cables are functioning. Why can't I access my second/slave hard

drive? Do I have to reformat the drive and lose all of my saved information?

October 22, 2007

Re: Cannot detect second hard drive after upgrade to Win XP 64-bit

If I get this right, you had your old 32bit XP on the the same physical HD

that you later used to partition, format and install your 64bit XP?

Your second HD did not have any installed system - only data?

If so, I suggest having a look in Computer Management > Disk Management and

look under Menu Item 'Action' - it has an option to rescan for disks. What

happens then?

In the event that your C:\ drive is IDE while the 'other' is SATA you may

have to get a 64bit SATA driver that complies with the chipset, (usually a

RAID/SATA chip) I assume you may have had one such driver for your 32bit

system, but this will not work here, everything on the old system that

needed a driver will have to have a 64bit driver now.

Tony. . .

"imlaseke" <imlaseke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:63CF52C0-FD75-45C5-A2A0-E302FEE8C748@microsoft.com...

> Hello,

>

> I recently upgraded my computer with a new motherboard and processor, but

> I

> kept my original two hard drives (one primary, one slave). Once the

> motherboard and processor was installed, I reinstalled windows xp. Prior

> to

> the upgrade I was running windows xp professional (32-bit) and decided to

> upgrade to windows xp professional (64-bit). During setup windows was

> able

> to see both hard drives. Windows was installed on the primary hard drive.

> Naturally, I had to reformat my primary hard drive, the second hard drive

> was

> not formatted. After installation I can only see the primary hard drive

> (C:). There is no icon or drive letter for the second hard drive (which

> should be labeled E:). I can see the drive in "device manager" and

> "computer

> management" but I cannot assign a drive letter. As far as I know, the

> hard

> drive and cables are functioning. Why can't I access my second/slave hard

> drive? Do I have to reformat the drive and lose all of my saved

> information?

October 23, 2007

Re: Cannot detect second hard drive after upgrade to Win XP 64-bit

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:39:00 -0700, imlaseke

<imlaseke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Hello,

>

>I recently upgraded my computer with a new motherboard and processor, but I

>kept my original two hard drives (one primary, one slave). Once the

>motherboard and processor was installed, I reinstalled windows xp. Prior to

>the upgrade I was running windows xp professional (32-bit) and decided to

>upgrade to windows xp professional (64-bit). During setup windows was able

>to see both hard drives. Windows was installed on the primary hard drive.

>Naturally, I had to reformat my primary hard drive, the second hard drive was

>not formatted. After installation I can only see the primary hard drive

>(C:). There is no icon or drive letter for the second hard drive (which

>should be labeled E:). I can see the drive in "device manager" and "computer

>management" but I cannot assign a drive letter. As far as I know, the hard

>drive and cables are functioning. Why can't I access my second/slave hard

>drive? Do I have to reformat the drive and lose all of my saved information?

Is the second drive dynamic?

October 23, 2007

Re: Cannot detect second hard drive after upgrade to Win XP 64-bit

Tony,

Your listed assumptions are correct:

"you had your old 32bit XP on the the same physical HD that you later used

to partition, format and install your 64bit XP?"

"Your second HD did not have any installed system - only data?"

"In the event that your C:\ drive is IDE while the 'other' is SATA"

I followed your suggestion and went into Disk Management to rescan for disks

and nothing happened. Due to software compatability problems, I switched

back to XP 32-bit last night. I still have the same problem of not detecting

my second hard drive. After reading some similar problems I have come to the

conclusion that I need to install drivers from a 3.5 inch floppy that came

with my motherboard. This involves booting up and hitting F6 key to load the

drivers. Is this the correct course of action and can I use a CD with these

same files? With my motherboard (DP35DP) I cannot install an internal 3.5

inch floppy drive and I don't want to buy an external drive if I can avoid it.

Thanks,

Ian

"Tony Sperling mail.dk>" wrote:

> If I get this right, you had your old 32bit XP on the the same physical HD

> that you later used to partition, format and install your 64bit XP?

>

> Your second HD did not have any installed system - only data?

>

> If so, I suggest having a look in Computer Management > Disk Management and

> look under Menu Item 'Action' - it has an option to rescan for disks. What

> happens then?

>

> In the event that your C:\ drive is IDE while the 'other' is SATA you may

> have to get a 64bit SATA driver that complies with the chipset, (usually a

> RAID/SATA chip) I assume you may have had one such driver for your 32bit

> system, but this will not work here, everything on the old system that

> needed a driver will have to have a 64bit driver now.

>

> Tony. . .

>

> "imlaseke" <imlaseke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:63CF52C0-FD75-45C5-A2A0-E302FEE8C748@microsoft.com...

> > Hello,

> >

> > I recently upgraded my computer with a new motherboard and processor, but

> > I

> > kept my original two hard drives (one primary, one slave). Once the

> > motherboard and processor was installed, I reinstalled windows xp. Prior

> > to

> > the upgrade I was running windows xp professional (32-bit) and decided to

> > upgrade to windows xp professional (64-bit). During setup windows was

> > able

> > to see both hard drives. Windows was installed on the primary hard drive.

> > Naturally, I had to reformat my primary hard drive, the second hard drive

> > was

> > not formatted. After installation I can only see the primary hard drive

> > (C:). There is no icon or drive letter for the second hard drive (which

> > should be labeled E:). I can see the drive in "device manager" and

> > "computer

> > management" but I cannot assign a drive letter. As far as I know, the

> > hard

> > drive and cables are functioning. Why can't I access my second/slave hard

> > drive? Do I have to reformat the drive and lose all of my saved

> > information?

>

October 23, 2007

Re: Cannot detect second hard drive after upgrade to Win XP 64-bit

Andy,

The second drive is basic and not dynamic.

Thanks,

Ian

"Andy" wrote:

> On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 10:39:00 -0700, imlaseke

> <imlaseke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>

> >Hello,

> >

> >I recently upgraded my computer with a new motherboard and processor, but I

> >kept my original two hard drives (one primary, one slave). Once the

> >motherboard and processor was installed, I reinstalled windows xp. Prior to

> >the upgrade I was running windows xp professional (32-bit) and decided to

> >upgrade to windows xp professional (64-bit). During setup windows was able

> >to see both hard drives. Windows was installed on the primary hard drive.

> >Naturally, I had to reformat my primary hard drive, the second hard drive was

> >not formatted. After installation I can only see the primary hard drive

> >(C:). There is no icon or drive letter for the second hard drive (which

> >should be labeled E:). I can see the drive in "device manager" and "computer

> >management" but I cannot assign a drive letter. As far as I know, the hard

> >drive and cables are functioning. Why can't I access my second/slave hard

> >drive? Do I have to reformat the drive and lose all of my saved information?

>

> Is the second drive dynamic?

>

October 23, 2007

Re: Cannot detect second hard drive after upgrade to Win XP 64-bit

Hi Ian,

generally if someone has a problem and a specific preference, the problem

prevents the preference (or the preference prevents solving the problem) -

in your case your preference is the natural way out of the predicament.

Since you will be installing to the IDE drive you don't need to have the

SATA driver present to the installer, and since you don't have a floppy

drive you can install the driver from your HD later to make the SATA drive

become visible. That is, if it isn't recognised automatically when you

install the drivers from the system CD? This goes for the 32bit system.

If you want to have your 64bit system installed at some point, using the

exact same machine and configuration you can do the same thing, only with a

64bit driver for the SATA. It is really only when you install an OS onto the

SATA drive that you need the driver on a floppy - and yes, it has to be a

floppy since the installer is a very simple program that isn't aware of any

CD's, nor can it use the HD's at this point for anything except installing

itself. Also, in the event that you should want to install onto the IDE but

using it as the second drive and the SATA drive first, you will need to make

the installer aware of that first drive.

A lot more could be said, but I think this pretty much sums up the

situation. But do consider having a USB Floppy drive, they are not expensive

and they can save the day on many occasions.

Good Luck, now!

Tony. . .

"imlaseke" <imlaseke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:318A0B79-6A67-4BE9-B8D1-787C28C848BA@microsoft.com...

> Tony,

>

> Your listed assumptions are correct:

>

> "you had your old 32bit XP on the the same physical HD that you later used

> to partition, format and install your 64bit XP?"

>

> "Your second HD did not have any installed system - only data?"

>

> "In the event that your C:\ drive is IDE while the 'other' is SATA"

>

> I followed your suggestion and went into Disk Management to rescan for

> disks

> and nothing happened. Due to software compatability problems, I switched

> back to XP 32-bit last night. I still have the same problem of not

> detecting

> my second hard drive. After reading some similar problems I have come to

> the

> conclusion that I need to install drivers from a 3.5 inch floppy that came

> with my motherboard. This involves booting up and hitting F6 key to load

> the

> drivers. Is this the correct course of action and can I use a CD with

> these

> same files? With my motherboard (DP35DP) I cannot install an internal 3.5

> inch floppy drive and I don't want to buy an external drive if I can avoid

> it.

>

> Thanks,

> Ian

>

> "Tony Sperling mail.dk>" wrote:

>

>> If I get this right, you had your old 32bit XP on the the same physical

>> HD

>> that you later used to partition, format and install your 64bit XP?

>>

>> Your second HD did not have any installed system - only data?

>>

>> If so, I suggest having a look in Computer Management > Disk Management

>> and

>> look under Menu Item 'Action' - it has an option to rescan for disks.

>> What

>> happens then?

>>

>> In the event that your C:\ drive is IDE while the 'other' is SATA you may

>> have to get a 64bit SATA driver that complies with the chipset, (usually

>> a

>> RAID/SATA chip) I assume you may have had one such driver for your 32bit

>> system, but this will not work here, everything on the old system that

>> needed a driver will have to have a 64bit driver now.

>>

>> Tony. . .

>>

>> "imlaseke" <imlaseke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>> news:63CF52C0-FD75-45C5-A2A0-E302FEE8C748@microsoft.com...

>> > Hello,

>> >

>> > I recently upgraded my computer with a new motherboard and processor,

>> > but

>> > I

>> > kept my original two hard drives (one primary, one slave). Once the

>> > motherboard and processor was installed, I reinstalled windows xp.

>> > Prior

>> > to

>> > the upgrade I was running windows xp professional (32-bit) and decided

>> > to

>> > upgrade to windows xp professional (64-bit). During setup windows was

>> > able

>> > to see both hard drives. Windows was installed on the primary hard

>> > drive.

>> > Naturally, I had to reformat my primary hard drive, the second hard

>> > drive

>> > was

>> > not formatted. After installation I can only see the primary hard

>> > drive

>> > (C:). There is no icon or drive letter for the second hard drive

>> > (which

>> > should be labeled E:). I can see the drive in "device manager" and

>> > "computer

>> > management" but I cannot assign a drive letter. As far as I know, the

>> > hard

>> > drive and cables are functioning. Why can't I access my second/slave

>> > hard

>> > drive? Do I have to reformat the drive and lose all of my saved

>> > information?

>>

October 23, 2007

Re: Cannot detect second hard drive after upgrade to Win XP 64-bit

Thanks Tony, I'll let you know how it goes.

Ian

"Tony Sperling mail.dk>" wrote:

> Hi Ian,

>

> generally if someone has a problem and a specific preference, the problem

> prevents the preference (or the preference prevents solving the problem) -

> in your case your preference is the natural way out of the predicament.

>

> Since you will be installing to the IDE drive you don't need to have the

> SATA driver present to the installer, and since you don't have a floppy

> drive you can install the driver from your HD later to make the SATA drive

> become visible. That is, if it isn't recognised automatically when you

> install the drivers from the system CD? This goes for the 32bit system.

>

> If you want to have your 64bit system installed at some point, using the

> exact same machine and configuration you can do the same thing, only with a

> 64bit driver for the SATA. It is really only when you install an OS onto the

> SATA drive that you need the driver on a floppy - and yes, it has to be a

> floppy since the installer is a very simple program that isn't aware of any

> CD's, nor can it use the HD's at this point for anything except installing

> itself. Also, in the event that you should want to install onto the IDE but

> using it as the second drive and the SATA drive first, you will need to make

> the installer aware of that first drive.

>

> A lot more could be said, but I think this pretty much sums up the

> situation. But do consider having a USB Floppy drive, they are not expensive

> and they can save the day on many occasions.

>

> Good Luck, now!

>

> Tony. . .

>

> "imlaseke" <imlaseke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> news:318A0B79-6A67-4BE9-B8D1-787C28C848BA@microsoft.com...

> > Tony,

> >

> > Your listed assumptions are correct:

> >

> > "you had your old 32bit XP on the the same physical HD that you later used

> > to partition, format and install your 64bit XP?"

> >

> > "Your second HD did not have any installed system - only data?"

> >

> > "In the event that your C:\ drive is IDE while the 'other' is SATA"

> >

> > I followed your suggestion and went into Disk Management to rescan for

> > disks

> > and nothing happened. Due to software compatability problems, I switched

> > back to XP 32-bit last night. I still have the same problem of not

> > detecting

> > my second hard drive. After reading some similar problems I have come to

> > the

> > conclusion that I need to install drivers from a 3.5 inch floppy that came

> > with my motherboard. This involves booting up and hitting F6 key to load

> > the

> > drivers. Is this the correct course of action and can I use a CD with

> > these

> > same files? With my motherboard (DP35DP) I cannot install an internal 3.5

> > inch floppy drive and I don't want to buy an external drive if I can avoid

> > it.

> >

> > Thanks,

> > Ian

> >

> > "Tony Sperling mail.dk>" wrote:

> >

> >> If I get this right, you had your old 32bit XP on the the same physical

> >> HD

> >> that you later used to partition, format and install your 64bit XP?

> >>

> >> Your second HD did not have any installed system - only data?

> >>

> >> If so, I suggest having a look in Computer Management > Disk Management

> >> and

> >> look under Menu Item 'Action' - it has an option to rescan for disks.

> >> What

> >> happens then?

> >>

> >> In the event that your C:\ drive is IDE while the 'other' is SATA you may

> >> have to get a 64bit SATA driver that complies with the chipset, (usually

> >> a

> >> RAID/SATA chip) I assume you may have had one such driver for your 32bit

> >> system, but this will not work here, everything on the old system that

> >> needed a driver will have to have a 64bit driver now.

> >>

> >> Tony. . .

> >>

> >> "imlaseke" <imlaseke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

> >> news:63CF52C0-FD75-45C5-A2A0-E302FEE8C748@microsoft.com...

> >> > Hello,

> >> >

> >> > I recently upgraded my computer with a new motherboard and processor,

> >> > but

> >> > I

> >> > kept my original two hard drives (one primary, one slave). Once the

> >> > motherboard and processor was installed, I reinstalled windows xp.

> >> > Prior

> >> > to

> >> > the upgrade I was running windows xp professional (32-bit) and decided

> >> > to

> >> > upgrade to windows xp professional (64-bit). During setup windows was

> >> > able

> >> > to see both hard drives. Windows was installed on the primary hard

> >> > drive.

> >> > Naturally, I had to reformat my primary hard drive, the second hard

> >> > drive

> >> > was

> >> > not formatted. After installation I can only see the primary hard

> >> > drive

> >> > (C:). There is no icon or drive letter for the second hard drive

> >> > (which

> >> > should be labeled E:). I can see the drive in "device manager" and

> >> > "computer

> >> > management" but I cannot assign a drive letter. As far as I know, the

> >> > hard

> >> > drive and cables are functioning. Why can't I access my second/slave

> >> > hard

> >> > drive? Do I have to reformat the drive and lose all of my saved

> >> > information?

> >>

>

October 23, 2007

Re: Cannot detect second hard drive after upgrade to Win XP 64-bit

If the drive appears in Disk Management, then the physical drive is

being detected. If you can't assign a drive letter to the partition on

the drive, then the problem is some kind of corruption with the

partition. Try running a partition repair program or a file recovery

program.

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 06:40:04 -0700, imlaseke

<imlaseke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Tony,

>

>Your listed assumptions are correct:

>

>"you had your old 32bit XP on the the same physical HD that you later used

>to partition, format and install your 64bit XP?"

>

>"Your second HD did not have any installed system - only data?"

>

>"In the event that your C:\ drive is IDE while the 'other' is SATA"

>

>I followed your suggestion and went into Disk Management to rescan for disks

>and nothing happened. Due to software compatability problems, I switched

>back to XP 32-bit last night. I still have the same problem of not detecting

>my second hard drive. After reading some similar problems I have come to the

>conclusion that I need to install drivers from a 3.5 inch floppy that came

>with my motherboard. This involves booting up and hitting F6 key to load the

>drivers. Is this the correct course of action and can I use a CD with these

>same files? With my motherboard (DP35DP) I cannot install an internal 3.5

>inch floppy drive and I don't want to buy an external drive if I can avoid it.

>

>Thanks,

>Ian

>

>"Tony Sperling mail.dk>" wrote:

>

>> If I get this right, you had your old 32bit XP on the the same physical HD

>> that you later used to partition, format and install your 64bit XP?

>>

>> Your second HD did not have any installed system - only data?

>>

>> If so, I suggest having a look in Computer Management > Disk Management and

>> look under Menu Item 'Action' - it has an option to rescan for disks. What

>> happens then?

>>

>> In the event that your C:\ drive is IDE while the 'other' is SATA you may

>> have to get a 64bit SATA driver that complies with the chipset, (usually a

>> RAID/SATA chip) I assume you may have had one such driver for your 32bit

>> system, but this will not work here, everything on the old system that

>> needed a driver will have to have a 64bit driver now.

>>

>> Tony. . .

>>

>> "imlaseke" <imlaseke@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

>> news:63CF52C0-FD75-45C5-A2A0-E302FEE8C748@microsoft.com...

>> > Hello,

>> >

>> > I recently upgraded my computer with a new motherboard and processor, but

>> > I

>> > kept my original two hard drives (one primary, one slave). Once the

>> > motherboard and processor was installed, I reinstalled windows xp. Prior

>> > to

>> > the upgrade I was running windows xp professional (32-bit) and decided to

>> > upgrade to windows xp professional (64-bit). During setup windows was

>> > able

>> > to see both hard drives. Windows was installed on the primary hard drive.

>> > Naturally, I had to reformat my primary hard drive, the second hard drive

>> > was

>> > not formatted. After installation I can only see the primary hard drive

>> > (C:). There is no icon or drive letter for the second hard drive (which

>> > should be labeled E:). I can see the drive in "device manager" and

>> > "computer

>> > management" but I cannot assign a drive letter. As far as I know, the

>> > hard

>> > drive and cables are functioning. Why can't I access my second/slave hard

>> > drive? Do I have to reformat the drive and lose all of my saved

>> > information?

>>

October 24, 2007

Re: Cannot detect second hard drive after upgrade to Win XP 64-bit

Tony,

The use of a 3.5 external floppy drive to install drivers was unsuccessful.

I made a restore point on my computer and then deleted the partition on

unnamed HD. Now I can label and work with the drive. I plan on going back

and recovering my data prior to the deletion. Thanks for the help.