After fresh Win XP Install

[AcID ZeR0]

I've just reinstalled a fresh win xp but for some reason it can't find my second hard drive is there anyway to enable it without reformating as it has everything i need on there?

[tesco]

did u accidently format it?
it's not showing in my computer?
is it in device manager or the disk management? (you can get to both by right clicking my comp>manage)

[AcID ZeR0]

Hi.
I didn't format it but something weird has gone on as i have to windows xp's installed now both on the same disk but both dont recognise the 2nd drive, when i go comp-manage i get disk unreadable and asks me to convert the disk

[peat moss]

Start over again , and delete both partions ! Been there done that, got the tee shirt! :)

[AcID ZeR0]

Lol thats second nature for me to do thigns like that anyway. Once XP is reinstalled and SP1 reapplyed is there a chance I could access the second HD without a reformat?

[Virtualbody1234]

If you format the C: partition then you'll lose data from there. Any other partitons should be ok.

Do you have a spare HDD? You could unplug your current drive and plug in the spare drive and format and install the OS. After that you could plug in the original drive as a slave to retrieve data from there.

[Snee]

You could dl knoppix or something, burn it and then boot from the knoppix-cd, if the files aren't entirely corrupted you might be able to access them that way. And thus you could move them to another partition before formatting.

[ObiWan]

What is the size of the unreadable partition

if it is over 137Gb try installing SP 1 or 2 and see if that fixes it