Can't see my HDD on my computer running Win 2003 Server

Question

Im running win 2003 server and i just added another HDD on it and it detects on the bios and on the disk management, but not on my computer, when i right click the hdd on disk management it says 0 free space and 0 used space, raw disk

Any help or anyone who has came across with the problem, pls share that info. I don't want to format, there's important info inside, when i plug it to xp it works perfectly fine.

Thanx

Answer 1

Best Article and Explanation of why and utilities to use should there had been data on that drive.

SOme times understanding the issue rather than just fixing it is more a long term benefit . Good Luck..

http://blogs.technet.com/ganand/archive/...

Answer 2

Go back to disk management and click on the new drive. It has to be partitioned and formatted.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libra...

Its just part of adding a drive to 2003.

under XP if you can see it, get the data off! It probably isn't NTSF partitioned or isn't mounted etc.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/libra...