Are both drives the same format ? Fat32 can't see NTFS. asking because you didn't say how they're setup
Are both drives the same format ? Fat32 can't see NTFS. asking because you didn't say how they're setup
Ah - everything is NTFS, except for the second (empty) partition on the 80gb hard drive (ie the HDD XP Home is installed on). That is to say that both OS installs are on NTFS partitions.
Since my original post, I've tried adding a different NTFS formatted drive and both OS's can see it. This one hasn't got an OS installed on it, so maybe that's something to do with it, but still don't know how to move forward with that...
Are both these drives on the same IDE channel ? jumpers set right on the drives ?
Set both HD's jumpers as CS (cable select) instead of master/slave if they're both on the same IDE cable.
Sorry - should have provided that originally...
Have tried both drives on same cable, with jumpers set to Master/Slave and with both as CS.
Have also tried separate cables / IDE channels, again set with Master/Master and with CS.
Am wondering if something is going on due to them being plugged into the IDE adapter - will try banging them into the onboard IDE when I get home (at work at mo). Might also try a repair of the OS with the new drive attached as this drive was not attached when I did the original install.
Don't really see how either would be the cause, but you never know. Still would appreciate any other suggestions if anyone has any ... ?
Might have something to do with the way this drive is partitioned ???I have a hard drive which has WinXP Pro on it's primary partition (200gb hard drive split into 5 roughly equal partitions).
You could make sure 4 of those 5 partions are extended partitions.
Anyhoo this is what I would do....Boot the XP Pro HD, backup the data and settings you want to keep, move these to the last partition on the drive, delete all the other partions and format so you now only have 2 instead of 5.
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