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XPS 420 3 Hard Drive Install
I added two more SATA hard drives to my XPS 420 today. The system came with a single drive configurae as OS on C: and Recovery on D:. The two additional drives were connected to SATA2 and SATA3 on teh motherboard. I updated the system setup (F2) on boot to enable SATA2 and SATA3.
After rebooting, the system seems to see all drives. I can see them in Device Manager and it says they are working properly.
The problem that I am having is that one of the drives does not show up as a drive letter when I click on Start Computer from Vista.
Any ideas on what I need to do to get this drive visibla and useable?
Thank you both for your help. The issue was that the drive was not initialized as suggested above. Since I am new to Vista the above suggestions were helpful. I ended up clicking Start and then typing "computer management" in the search box. It brought me to the correct screen and I went to the disk management selection of the left hand menu to initialize and than format the drive.
the drive is now availabe and this issue is closed.
d-traincanada
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Posted September 6th, 2008 01:00
I have seen this a few times ... usually this is the problem:
Check this out
Hope this helps ...