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Thread ID: 62793	2005-10-19 17:04:00	formatted C drive but now can't find D drive partition is not there	sha49 (9106)	Press F1

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397727	2005-10-22 00:15:00	The C: and D: "names" are nothing to do with Maxtor. They are a DOS/Windows thing. ;) From DOS, FDISK /STATUS will tell you what drives are visible to the low level of the OS, even if they aren't visible in Windows. I take it that you actually had the two drives installed, and running -- this is how you got your files on the D: drive -- and the problem started with the format of the C: Windows drive. Are the drives both on the same cable? If so, have a good look at the jumpers on the back of the drives. The C: drive should be jumpered as "MA", and the other as "SL". If the C: (Windows) drive has a cable to itself, and the other shares a cable with a CD drive, again, check the jumpers. For the second HD to be D:, it must be the "MA" drive and the CD "SL".	Graham L (2)
397728	2005-10-22 05:06:00	I am not sure how it connects or what the difference is. how do I find out? The hard drive is made by maxtor:Max-Blast plus2 version 1.00. Maxblast is a hard drive utility from Maxtor. If your computer motherboard was not capable of directly supporting your "new D drive", maxblast software would have been installed to take enable the D drive to work. In this case, you will not be able to access the D drive until the maxblast software is re-installed. Can you find the person who origionally installed the D drive? While you can get the maxblast software off the maxtor.com site, if you don't utilise it correctly, you could loose all your data off your D drive.	wuppo (41)
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