Hi,

I have two hard drives in my PC both WD, one 40gb and the other 20.

Try as I might, when I boot from the large capacity disc, I can not get the system to assign a drive letter to the smaller drive.

The smaller drive is recognised in the BIOS and is present 'online' in Computer Management.

I can't seem to get diskpart to recognise list the drive either.

The funny thing is if I boot from the smaller drive everything is fine.

Any suggestions to save my old syrup from more damage???

Cheers

The behavior you describe usually denotes the reaction to an unformatted drive.

However, as you inducate that the 20 has an OS on it I assume that it is formatted?

You have a bootable OS on both drives? Two XP's?

If so; why & how? Did you install XP twice? Did you clone?

Were you ever able to see both these drives at once?

How did you come by your current setup?

The easy awnser would be from the 40 to format the 20.

Right click it under Disk Management & choose format.

Hi jephree

I am at the moment installing a new hard drive so I need to transfer my files/settings over to the large drive. However, as I can't see the 20 from the 40 it is not plain sailing.

Yes I can see the 40 from the 20 and I could drag and drop, but I would prefer to use the transfer wizard and assign the proper drive letters as I plan to use the 20 for storage of MP3's/digital media etc.

So any ideas on how to fix the prob would be welcome?

Thanx

Is the 20 jumpered as a slave?

If yes & you still can't see it try putting it temporarily on the secondary Master.
(in place of your DVD/CD drive).