Unable to access or detect second harddrive

David Park bornskilled200 at gmail.com
Sun Nov 11 22:30:23 UTC 2007


Please you must look at the first email for full information and
thoroughly look at it's sectioned info. You can see 50% of your
questions already answered in the first email as for the rest,
Both harddrive is from western digital while one(windows+linux) is
SATA(Note Acronis says that this one is in fact a IDE but i remember
plugging this harddrive with a red wire into a red plug :D)  the other
one(media) is IDE.
The differences of the harddrive is listed here
1rst one
Has
 1rst partition
   Windows+other things to do with windows such as program
 2cnd partition
   Linux+other things to do with linux such as program
2cnd one
 1rst partition
   Media
   Storage
 2cnd partition
   Page files for windows
 3rd partition
   HLSERVER files for windows(just a server for counterstrike)

On Nov 11, 2007 5:17 PM, Bruce Marshall <bmarsh at bmarsh.com> wrote:
> On Sunday 11 November 2007, David Park wrote:
> > Yes i do, one harddrive is the one that has windows and linux(cause
> > when i was installing i couldnt find the unpartitioned space on my
> > second harddrive) and the second harddrive is my media and other
> > storage needs.
>
> I believe you said you used Acronis to partition the second drive....
>
> What does Acronis show for it now?   Does it show the partitions you expect?
>
> And what is different about your send drive than the first?   Vendor maybe,
> but what else?   The way it is connected?   SCSI or  ??
>
> Have you looked in the boot messages?
>
> An unpartitioned drive would act this way with fdisk, I believe.
>
> Install   hwinfo   and run:     hwinfo --disk   and see what it says.
>
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