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Can't find 2nd hard drive in XP

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Post November 8th, 2005, 8:52 am

I recently uninstalled Linux Fedora on my old Gateway machine, and reinstalled Windows XP. Everything is working fine, but it does not recognize my 2nd hard drive that was installed a few years ago. What do I have to do to get XP to recognize that 2nd drive?
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Post November 8th, 2005, 8:52 am

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Post November 8th, 2005, 11:11 am

Right click My Computer and select Mange
Cick on Disk Management

Is you second hard drive listed there?
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Post November 9th, 2005, 1:08 pm

I am assumeing this drive was formatted for Fedora if so you have to reformat it with NTFS (or you could use FAT32 if you really wanted to). I am not sure if Windows will format a Linux partition if the steps grinch mentioned about doesn't do it the you will need 3rd party software like partition magic to format it.
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Post November 12th, 2005, 9:26 pm

windows xp cd wont recognize the file system but will know there is one there. it will just mark it as unkown and it will delete it and create a new partition and format it just fine.

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