Hello Ken,
If your second drive is a dynamic disk, then Home Premium cannot use it.
Home Editions of Vista do not support dynamic disks.
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"Ken" <Ken@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Old System:
>
> a. 80 GB - Win XP SP2
> b. 160 GB (IDE) - Data files
>
> New System:
>
> a. 160 GB - Vista Home Premium
> b. 160 GB (IDE) - Data files
>
> After swapping the a. drives and putting Vista on the new one, Vista sees
> the b. drive in disk managment but can't bring it online or assign a drive
> letter to make is usable.
>
> What would causethis and how can it be fixed? The 160 (b.) drive has 100
> GB
> of data on it and can't be reformatted.
>
> Help!
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