Adding new D Drive to my system

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GenWhite - 10 Aug 2006 07:56 GMT

Hi, I am trying to add a new drive to my system and all seems well until I
switch the system off, when I reboot the drive is gone.
I am using the initialize and convert wizard in XP, I follow this through
with no problems and at the end I have my D Drive and I can use it, if I
reboot the drive is still there, If I switch off and restart, the drive has
gone ???
Anyone have any ideas I could try please ?

My system is XP Media Ed / Dell XPS 600 / RAID

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James West - 10 Aug 2006 11:22 GMT

isn't the D: drive the recovery partition on the Dells
if so the system will hide the drive to stop you playing with it

try make it F: or something

James

> Hi, I am trying to add a new drive to my system and all seems well until I
> switch the system off, when I reboot the drive is gone.
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> My system is XP Media Ed / Dell XPS 600 / RAID

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GenWhite - 11 Aug 2006 09:36 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion James, turns out I have to enable the second serial
channel in Bios and all now sorted :)

> isn't the D: drive the recovery partition on the Dells
> if so the system will hide the drive to stop you playing with it
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> > My system is XP Media Ed / Dell XPS 600 / RAID

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