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Second hard drive shown in device manager but not my computer.

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leemoreau

IS-IT--Management
Sep 30, 2004
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Can someone help me here. I just installed Windows Server 2003 on my master hard drive and it works fine. I have a secondary drive that I backed everything up onto. When I installed server the drive was just unplugged and disabled in bios, so I just undid that and bios sees it fine like it has for the past year when I had XP on the master. I booted to 2003, it shows Western Digital drive found. Under Device Manager it shows the drive there as well and shows that it's fine. When I click populate for volumes it shows the 40g driver but no drive letter with it. The only thing is that in My Computer the drive isn't there at all, it only shows the master drive. Am I missing a step here to make it appear in My Computer? Thanks so much.
 
K I'm dumb, I don't know how to delete this but I just had to go into computer management and assign a drive letter lol.
 
go to computer management and right click on the disk and re-initialize it
 
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