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Finding Second Hard Drive

Asked by Mike Merva

I just recently installed Dapper after Windows crashed for me, and I love it besides the fact that it will not recognize my second hard drive. I have gone into the the device manager and "disks" administration, and from what I can tell the computer thinks the second hard drive is a cd drive. (In "disks" under cd-rom it lists "lite-on combo sohc-5232k," which is my second hard drive.)

Again, I'm new to all this stuff, but interested in learning. Anyone got any ideas?

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Jeff Greene (jeffgreene) said : 		#1

Hi, I am pretty sure "lite-on combo sohc-5232k" is a cd/dvd drive.
More info about the drive here: http://www.cdrinfo.com/Sections/Reviews/Specific.aspx?ArticleId=8997

Are you sure you actually had two drives? In Windows, you may have had two partitions which showed up as different drives but were in fact one drive split up into two. Do you remember how much space each had? When you were installing Dapper, what did you do when it asked you how you wanted to partition your hard drive(s)?

If you want to peek inside your computer, you can remove the case and check to see if there really are two hard drives. Don't get confused into thinking that the cd and dvd drives are hard drives. The hard drives should look like this:
http://www.westerndigital.com/global/images/products/bck/wdfDesktop_BB.jpg

I hope that helps.

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Jeff Greene (jeffgreene) said : 		#2

Sorry, I didn't read your statement about it thinking your hard drive is a cd-rom correctly. This may be the case, however I doubt that it is very common for a piece for hardware to be detected incorrectly as such. Are you sure you don't have a cd-rw/dvd-rom drive? My answer above still holds, so please answer that too.

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Mike Merva (michael-merva) said : 		#3

Hey you're totally right... Jeez, I swore that the guy who put my computer together said it was a separate hard drive, but now that you put the idea in my head and I checked it out, it was certainly just one drive that had been partitioned. Lost all my music-- oh well... Thanks for your help!