Hard drive not detected

Curiouslemon

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Aug 17, 2012
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I Installed a new copy of windows onto a friends computer. Before installing the copy both hard drives were detected and could be seen in 'Computer'. However after installation only the original C: drive was detected under 'Computer' and the other drive can only be seen under device manager and disk management. The drive is described as "Healthy (Recovery Partition)". We have tried in a different PC and the same problem occurred. Uninstalling and Re installing the hard drive from device manger didn't help, and neither did trying to create a new volume, as right clicking the partition under disk management doesn't give the option to it only says "help".
 
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There is no Unallocated space on that drive? It is kinda odd to have a Recovery partition that big. That and usually windows places a 1-3 small 500MB partitions on the same drive for recovery (its basically the tools on the windows installation disk.). But anyways the easiest way I can think of destroying those partitions is the use the windows installation disk and act like you are going to custom install and destroy and make new partitions on that drive and then reset the machine without installing windows this should work as long as windows didn't place the bootloader on that drive.

snowctrl

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Firstly, check that there are actually two physical drives in the PC, ie that the two drives are not actually partitions of the same drive

Then, re-install windows with only the drive that you want Windows to install on actually connected up, ie disconnect the other drive from the PC. This will force Windows to install on only that drive. Then, once Windows is fully installed and purring like a kitten, re-install the second drive and everything should work as expected
 

caqde

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There is no Unallocated space on that drive? It is kinda odd to have a Recovery partition that big. That and usually windows places a 1-3 small 500MB partitions on the same drive for recovery (its basically the tools on the windows installation disk.). But anyways the easiest way I can think of destroying those partitions is the use the windows installation disk and act like you are going to custom install and destroy and make new partitions on that drive and then reset the machine without installing windows this should work as long as windows didn't place the bootloader on that drive.
 
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