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Is the second hard disk partitioned and formatted - it its not you won't see it in explorer - should still show up in Hard Disk Administrator (or whatever its called in Win7)|
Originally Posted by Lohenien
just got a new PC, i5 e750 with a geforce 260 gtx 896 mb vid card, two HDDs 4 gigs ram. Currently windows 7 only shows one hard drive in windows explorer but it shows both in devices manager. How do I get it to see both, and what is best to store on the second drive ?
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Device manager shows the physical hardware
Explorer shows those configured to work with Windows
Also check they aren't both set up as drive C.
If they are EIDE drives and both attached to the same IDE controller one should be set up as master and the other as slave (set by jumpers on the drives themselves)
If they are on different controllers then both should be set as master.
If its a SATA drive check that you have the SATA drivers installed.
Also if they are set up as a Raid array you will only see one drive - It's capacity will either be the capacity of a single drive (mirrorring) or the total of both (striping)
There could also be other disk spanning software which would give a similar effect to striping (but without the performance benifits)
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just got a new PC, i5 e750 with a geforce 260 gtx 896 mb vid card, two HDDs 4 gigs ram. Currently windows 7 only shows one hard drive in windows explorer but it shows both in devices manager. How do I get it to see both, and what is best to store on the second drive ?
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