Unknown second drive - doesn't appear under Windows if it is a Ghost controlled drive

[Beavis]

in disk managmant,

in the grey section on the bottom right does it say disk 1 by the extra drive ? if so when you RIGHT mouse click over where it says disk 1 what are your options?

[santojmezzaroba]

Disc 1 :
Change drive letter and path
Format
Delete Partition
Properties
Help

[Beavis]

no

click to the left where it says disk1

[santojmezzaroba]

Properties
Help

[Beavis]

those are the only 2 options ??

[santojmezzaroba]

That is correct

[Beavis]

what does it say in the box to the right ??

[santojmezzaroba]

Local Disc (C 186.31 GB NTFS
Healthy (System)



186.31 GB NTFS
Healthy (active)

Disc 1 does not have a drive letter such as C:\ does.

[Beavis]

are you sure you cant see the second hard drive in "my computer"

[santojmezzaroba]

I am sure, C:\ is the only hard disc drive.
Disc 1 in the computer management screen does not have a drive letter simular to Disc 0 the space is blank.

[Beavis]

you need to format that drive through disk managment

[George]

Originally Posted by Beavis

you need to format that drive through disk managment

I think that should be Support's call. I can't see them sending out a unit with an unformatted drive in it.

George

[ddouglass]

From what I have read so far in this thread, he doesn't need to format but can assign a drive letter and then it will show in My Computer. It is already formatted and has the Ghost image on it.

[santojmezzaroba]

DDouglas You are absolutely correct. I assigned a drive letter last night and everything went through
Thanks to all

[Beavis]

after you gave it a drive letter did you look and see if there was any data on the drive ??


if there wasnt, formatting wouldnt have been a bad idea, windows would have assigned it a drive letter.

[MTUSUPPORT]

Just saw this question, Yes it should have had just worked when you added the drive letter, as the drive most likely is formatted.

[George]

Originally Posted by Beavis

its not as simple as copy & paste.

Copy and paste does have it's place in this scheme of things, however.

Certainly not for cloning a drive as Beavis said, but I use copy and paste frequently to keep the clone drive current.

For example when I finish creating a new cdg track in KHP, I will copy and paste it from C: to D:, and continue to do this until I finally burn to a cd, then I make sure to delete the files from both drives. No need to go through the cloning process for every little change. Same with text files, MTU upgrades, etc, or any other minor changes.

About once a month, I clear out all unwanted files from C:, do a disc defrag, then clone the cleaned up C: to D:.

Works well for me.
George

[den_mar]

I have a MTU rackmount computer that I purchased last July. It has 2 200gb internal hard drives that were installed by MTU including the Norton Ghost Version 9. I have backed up per your instructions on this thread . "If your computer hard drive ever fails, you can then boot to this drive in the Bios of the computer." I am intimidated by making any changes in Bios without first discussing exactly the procedure used to change to use the second drive. I would like to try it out now (the second hard drive) rather than waiting until something happens when the pressure is on.
Thanks,
Denmar

[lmcmains]

Unplug your primary drive and see if it will boot from the ghost drive. Be sure to turn off the computer and unplug the power cord before you do this.