I partitioned my C and D drives and reinstalled windows XP sp2 on the C drive but can't find D, HELP!?

Question

I partitioned both drives and reinstalled on C. The C drive is avaliable but D drive has gone missing...It has the most memory on it! I have tried finding hardware, going into setup and the startup but have had no success. Can you please help!? What's going on?

*(I reinstalled windows and used the partition option to wipe both drives)

*(The computer can't detect the D drive at all, when I go into my computer the drive does not even appear as if it is lost)

Thanks

Answer 1

Ok this is a fairly simple fix.  While you partitioned the D drive you most likely did not format it.  Follow the procedure below;

Go to start

click control panel

Click administrative tools

click computer management

then on the right side find disk management.

Find your D partition

right click on it and format it

restart and your D will be available

Good luck

Answer 2

you need to format it.  click start menu then right click on my computer and go to manage.  Go to the storage devices menu on the left, right click on the other drive, and click format. WHABAM!