yes and it isn't there
neither does the drive show in device manager

"neil" <neilp67_@_hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Did you use disk management to see if the drive was visible.
> Neil
> "seth" <me@myhouse.local> wrote in message
> news:%23VIsXgR3IHA.4988@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl...
>>i have a strange problem with xp and my additional drive i recently
>>bought.
>>
>> i was running vista for a while and just couldn't deal with it anymore so
>> decided to go back to xp.
>>
>> i have the original 250gb drive and added a 1tb drive. when i installed
>> xp it saw the 1tb drive as D and worked fine. i started to install my
>> drivers, first with the latest nvidia drivers for my video. it installed
>> fine, but after the reboot i nearly freaked out when D was gone. it
>> didn't see the drive at all. subsequent reboots did not show the drive
>> in device manager at all. i started over again with fresh xp install and
>> after it finished D was there again. i installed sp3 and after the
>> reboot, D was again gone. i installed xp a third time and D was there.
>> this time i did nothing except a reboot and again D was gone.
>>
>> one thing that's interesting, every time the system would boot after the
>> initial install finished and D wouldn't appear, the boot process took
>> excessively long (nearly 5 min). i can't make sense of it. if it was a
>> matter of xp never seeing the drive, i can see the possibility of a
>> driver isse, 48 bit lba support etc. but when the drive can't be seen
>> after the second boot following initial install, that doesn't make too
>> much sense to me (bios always sees the drive).
>>
>> i ended up going back to vista (for now) and no issues accessing the 1tb
>> drive.
>> system is hp pavilion a1630n purchased end of 2006.
>>
>> any ideas why this could be happening?
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