Can’t see secondary SATA drive in “My Computer”

[mikeb]

I recently needed to increase the size of boot (C drive (from 80Gb to 300Gb). I originally had two SATA drives in my PC, an 80 GB (C drive that contained WinXP and a secondary 160 GB (G drive that I was using for data storage. So what I did was to remove the 160 GB drive and install the 300 GB drive in its place, then cloned (using Acronis Disk Image 8.0) my 80 GB drive to the 300 GB drive. Then I replaced the 80 GB drive with the 300 GB drive, and re-installed the 160 GB drive, booted up and everything was good until I went to look for the 160 GB drive in My Computer and it wasn’t there. I looked into the Device Manager and both drives show up fine. All three drives are Seagate SATA, with nothing on the jumper pins (which I think means their using cable select?), and I believe when I was in Device Manager the 300 GB drive was showing up in Location 0, and the 160 GB drive was showing up in Location 1 and the status on both devices was “This device is working properly”. I then re-installed the original 80 GB drive and the 160 showed up again. Can someone please tell me what I need to do to be able to see the 160 drive when the 300 GB drive swapped in again? Thanks!

 

[Zoron]

Right-click on my computer and select "Manage". Go to disk management and see if the other drive shows up there.

 

[sturm]

when in disk management have it rescan for disks.
When you reinstalled the 160 drive did you use the same sata connection on the motherboard?

By the way there is no 'master, slave, CS" settings on sata drives. Its one drive per channel only.

 

[mikeb]

I'll give that a shot this Friday (the first chance I'll have to put the 300 back in). After it was cloned, I put the 300 on the same cable that the original 80 was on and reattached the other cable back to the 160. It has been suggested that after the cloning, I should have put the 300 on the 80 cable, rebooted, then put the 160 back in and rebooted again. I'm also going to try that on Friday.

 

[mikeb]

Good news, Disk Management did it! All I had to do was go into it and assign a drive letter to the drive I wasn't seeing and it popped up. I still don't understand why it didn't get one when the drive was originally recognized as "New Hardware Found", but it was easy enough to fix. Thanks for all your help!