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Old 29-01-2008, 09:49 PM
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2nd Hard Drive Problem
Hi i have just installed a 2nd hard drive to use as a backup the second drive is not a new one. I have put it to slave and left the main one as is. when i boot the pc its not showing in my computer. Ive looked in device manager and it says its there but i cant accsess it. ive checked bios and it also shows there. any help would be great.
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Re: 2nd Hard Drive Problem
Check the Disk Management.

Most likely it is unformatted or formatted to a file system unknown.

What is the File Format?

If you do not want the data then just go ahead and format it NTFS.
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thanks ive done this and now all is ok.
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Cool.

Let us know if we can help further in the future.
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