WinXP all of the sudden not seeing my second hard drive - WTF?

T Roosevelt

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Sat Nov-05-05 10:50 AM
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WinXP all of the sudden not seeing my second hard drive - WTF?

I have two hard drives - they show up in the BIOS, and in the Device Manager. However, I cannot access the secondary HD, and it is not showing up in the Disk Management.

When I try to run PartitionMagic, I get an Init failed: Error 702.

When I run PartitionInfo, it appears that I've lost all logical partition information.

How do I get them back?

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Lethe

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Sat Nov-05-05 01:42 PM
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1. are both your HDs IDE or SATA?

also, do you have a Dell by chance?

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CatholicEdHead

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Sat Nov-05-05 02:47 PM
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2. Check all your internal cable connections?

Is anything loose?

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LynneSin

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Sat Nov-05-05 02:49 PM
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3. Yep, that's what I was thinking - go for the most obvious

The connection might not have been tight to begin with an a bump could have loosened it to the point that XP can't recognize it anymore

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