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assigning free hard drive space
I backed up all my data files onto the D drive before doing a complete install of Windows XP Pro onto drive C: Now I can't access the D drive - it says "The disk in drive D: is not formatted. Do you want to format it now?" I have noticed that if I reboot to DOS (ie. hold down control while rebooting and bypass XP

Apple II Csa2 FAQs: Hard Disks & SCSI, Part 12/25
"Josh" wrote: Hi, I backed all my files up on to a 2nd harddrive and then reformatted my main harddrive. Now if I go into computer management it wants me to reformat my second harddrive (and lose all my files) before I can access it or give it a drive letter. Can any one help? All my files are on the harddrive I

Access Harddrive Partitions
Chris Ahrweiler DocJ...@DocJoJo.com microsoft public windowsnt setup Hey, can anybody help me with the following: I Can't access my old Netware V4.1 partition afte installing NT 4.0 - The netware partition is the last of four partition on the second harddrive and there is one NTFS partition on this harddrive .

assigning free hard drive space
Whenever I start PartitionMagic, I get error #105 for my second harddrive (30 GB). I get the following message: Disk 2 (29309MB 3970c 240h 63s) appears to have This serious problem can lead to data loss. (The rest is just about PartitionMagic refusing access to that drive) I looked it up in the utilities from

how to recognize second HD in Windows XP...
So about the only way to do a good dual-boot installation is to install Linux to a (clean, no partitions) second disk drive, and then you can reclaim any unused space on the second hard drive by adding an extended dos partition to it if you, AFTER you install Linux. Of course, you could always wipe out your current

Am I ready to go Mac-only?
If you have room on your C: drive, you can install Win98 as a second OS, in which case you should be able to access the second HDD if it using an overlay not supported by NTFS. It may also be possible to install Win98 on the second HDD and set it up for a dual-boot. If you or a friend has another computer that is

Drive letter issues in restore
If I try to make the new drive the only drive and change setup for one hard drive the same thing happens.. cant boot from the floppy. If I could access the floppy containing FDISK I could make the drive's primary partition active (right?). I know there is a simple answer to this and I'll look like the village idiot

Hard disk controller driver problem + others....
You still add an extra hard drive the same way. The RAID functionality is optional and you will find that the original drive isnt RAID. I'm still not sure what my options are. Just add a new drive of the size you feel you need, and forget about RAID. I guess I can understand that because I will be dealing with

Zero Tolerance policies...
I have since reinstalled windows 98 onto my primary drive, but 98 does not recognize my second harddrive at all since it was formatted with XP. My question is, how do I get access to that second harddrive so I can reformat it in a windows 98 format. I have tried fdisk in msdos but it does not show up in there.

Installed Vista dual boot, think I screwed up!
Both OS's are on one harddrive and have their own NTFS partition. When I go into windows explorer to browse the second harddrive it sees the volume (G:) but I cannot see any folders on that hard drive. The harddrive does not have an OS on it. Important to know that I was able to access this second harddrive before

problem caused by Partition Magic 7.0
You still add an extra hard drive the same way. The RAID functionality is optional and you will find that the original drive isnt RAID. There can be partition shift (MS stupidity that a primary partition on the second drive gets inserted in the drive letter sequence in second place), but that is it.

Help! - Installed Linux, can't access OS/2!
But now I cannot get my D: drive to show up on my system tree, there is the A: drive, C: drive, and the two DVD/CD drives – BUT not my second hard drive. What have I done, or how can I correct this problem. Denise L. Shaw Glendale, Arizona denises...@cox.net -- Denise Shaw Glendale, Arizona.

Can't make directory on my second harddrive
Since the actual amount of writing to the swapfile is, hopefully, minimal perhaps the spoolfile can go on the same drive to balance the access pattern overall and diminish Although there is a theoretical advantage to having the swapfile on a second hard drive, the actual benefits are pretty much minimal.

Lost NTFS Partition.
Under windows, I can see all the ->contents of d, and I can open all the files, run all of the ->applications. I can create new files through applications on d. I ->can't install any programs either-- it will say that my access is ->denied. However, I can save and delete files on my d drive. -> ->Thanks in advance!

How to access second hard drive?
And "drive" letters are not actually assigned to hard drives, but to the partitions and logical drives on the HDDs; a single hard disk drive can hold several "drives", Important to know that I was able to access this second harddrive before I installed XP home on the master along with win2k.

Microsoft throws in the towel on Vista
... and Visual Studio 2008 (used for developing software), I decided to install Vista 64-bit on a second hard drive partition to see if my software would run faster. Even though I have 4GB RAM, under XP with my two video cards, I'm left with only 2.75GB, but under Vista 64-bit, I can access the full 4GB RAM.

Harddrive recovery
cindy ci...@discussions.microsoft.com microsoft public windowsxp general i have a second harddrive installed on my computer with old files i am trying to get off it. i have 2 user accounts on my computer , my husband has 1 and i have another. he can access his side of the secondary hard drive but i can not and he

Missing D: DRive
Increasing the rpm only helps the access time for seeks. If the data transfer rate is constrained by the interface, then what you will gain is a decrease I can't say that I've benchmarked a hard drive in years. You could always try a Google search. -- Richard G. Harper [MVP Shell/User] rghar...@gmail.com * NEW!

access to second harddrive (dos) under LINUX
I had to reformat the first harddrive in order to reinstall Windows 95 and software necessary for my small business. However I have not found any way to access the second harddrive. Running FDISK shows the partitions on the 2nd drive but I can't access them. Any ideas? Yes. Contact your vendor's support and clarify

Can't make directory on my second harddrive
Some research revealed that Acer use a custom bootloader to enable access to the HPA, and subsequently start the restore procedure. It turns out that the recovery procedure had restored the system onto the /wrong/ partition - the HPA - instead of the second partition, where it should have. A second attempt was