Right click on My Computer and select Manage. On the following screen,
select Disk Management.
The drive should appear on the right hand side..... assign it a drive
letter!
Cari
www.coribright.com
"Jeff" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>I recently was helping a friend with a new pc. She wanted to transfer the
>data from her old machine's hard drive to the new one. So I installed
>Windows XP with an NTFS partition on the new hard drive and installed the
>old hard drive in the same machine (Which has Windows 98 SE installed on it
>and all the files she wants to keep). When I booted up XP it found the
>second hard drive like it should, and it shows it in the device manager.
>However when I double click my computer, it is not there. It only shows
>the C Drive (the new hard drive), and the DVD and CD-RW drive (D and E
>respectively). So how can this problem be fixed? I think it has something
>to do with possibly the mbr on the second hard drive? I just don't
>understand how Windows XP can see the hard drive, but won't display it or
>map it. Need help!
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