Unable to access or detect second harddrive

[Bruce Marshall]

On Sunday 11 November 2007, David Park wrote:
> 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.

Sorry for bothering you....     and if you didn't top-post, I might have read 
the rest of your messages.


> 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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