second hard drive problem

[kasinath]

Hello I am kasinath.

I am new to this forum .

I am recently encounter following problem.

My system is compaq presario sr1630il.

OS:- windows xp professional with sp2

memory 512MB RAM

I have two hard disks each of 80GB.

Each hard disk is partioned 40GB each and formatted as NTFS.

First harddisk drives "C" and "E". "C" is system drive.(western digital-WDC WD800JD-60LSA0)

second hard disk "D" and "F".(SAMSUNG SPo822N)

system has a dvd writer and floppy drive.

First hard disk is western digital and second one is samsung.

Recently I had a hardware problem (system suddenly freezed after booting).The HP hardware engineer has changed the motherboard and rectified the problem.

After this when ever I shutdown(turnoff) and start the system system boots and goes to chkdisk

and checks second hard disk dirve "D" comes ok and I could use and access the files in both the drives

If I shutdown(restart) the system sytem boots

and In MYcomputer "C" and "E" drive of first disk is shown and works normaly.

But second hard disk only drive "D" is show and it could not be accessed .

kindly explain and guide me solve this problem.

kasinath

[Kelsenellenelvian]

http://www.samsung.com/global/business/hdd...ort_Shdiag.html <--- Grab and use this. I am willing to bet your drive is dead or close to being dead.

On the good side though new drives are really cheap. Plus it sounds like you may be under warrenty.