Cloned a new hard drive - where's my old one?

Like it says. Had success cloning, or copying from my old 40GB to my new 100GB, now running on the new 100GB, which is part of what I want, but now I can't see the old drive, which I would also like. The missing drive is recognized by BIOS and even is listed withing Windows Device Manager as "working properly" and "enabled," but does not appear in Explorer, or anywhere else, or in DOS. This should be the E: drive, after the D: CD drive.

 

Hi, Blastoff

Welcome to Wilders

It looks as either if you had [if you used the new layout option] Ti to delete your you old HDD when you had it preform the Clone to your new HDD. or your jumpers are set incorrectly.

If you old HDD was deleted go to My Computer>right click Manged>left click Disk Management> left click, find your disk right click and reformat it.

Take Care,
TheQuest

 

If a HD is not recognized in My Computer and is recognized in Device Manager and then you reformat it, won't reformatting erase the data on the drive?

 

Yes, you will lose everything by reformatting, but you already have everything on the newly cloned drive.

 

Not sure if I needed to reformat or not, but I did. Still didn't work.

BUT ...

After doing so, I noticed that there is an option to "change drive letter and paths," and there was apparently no drive letter assigned. So I assigned it E:, and presto, got the drive. And that MAY have been all that needed to be done.

And as Ralphie mentioned, while I lost the data on that drive, I had already cloned it onto my new C: drive. Probably would have been optimal, safety wise, to have that data on both drives (my original intent), but it appears all is well.

Thanks to all.