Hey hope SOMEONE can help me out. My computer was running really slowly so i restored it to factory condition and everything seemed to be going ok, it was running much faster. But the first problem is that my second hard drive that i installed a while after purchasing the pc won't show up in "my computer". It's DISPLAYED in device manager but under it's properties it says it's functioning properly but under the volumes it has a capacity of 0Mb.

The other problem i have is that my soundcard isn't working. I have a SOUND Blaster Audigy but it's not being detected. The software and drivers are still there but whenever i run the diagnostic tests it says that it cannot find a sound card and to check it's connected correctly. I know it is correctly connected as it was working right before i wiped the computer.

It'd be a great help if someone could solve one or both of these... :-?good details on the nature of the problem and how it started. We still need to know:

1) Complete Specs for the PC
2) Specs for the HD that doesn't work properly?
3) Complete Specs for the sound card?

It's a Multivision with AMD Athlon XP 2200+ with 1Gb Ram, the original hard drive's a Maxtor 80Gb the new one's a seagate Barracuda 7200.9 160Gb. I'm sorry i don't know much about the soundcard other than it being a soundblaster audigy and i can't find out through my computer because it's not showing up.okay. so far so good. is there anything irreplaceable on the seagate HD? (just in case)I would prefer to KEEP the STUFF that's on it but it's mostly replaceable, music etc.Can anyone help?hang on. i'll get someone here.ok have you tryied turning your computer off unplugging the slave drive and replugging it in??


for the sound card uninstall the drivers and reboot and reinstall the driversOk thanks the sound is fixed but the hard disk still isn'tcan u take the hhd out and put it in another computer and see if it get recongizedI couldn't do that very easily i'm afraid.have you tried to do an unrestore?? if u used system restore....I fixed it by opening up the computer management section in the administrative tools then converting the disk from dynamic to basic in the disk management section. The disk needed to be partitioned again.I'm glad your problem was solved and thanks for posting your solution so that other members might be able to fix their own problems