Windows XP Machine Does Not See HD's`

[croSSeduP]

I know this type of question has been asked a lot out there, but I have a bit of a twist on the problem that I haven't seen. I hooked up two HD's from another machine to check the condition of them. The HD's show up in BIOS but not in Disk Management. ? How do I get the computer to "see" them? The disks physically spin up and start working when the computer is booted, but they show up nowhere in any management screen. Help?

 

[Joe C]

I hooked up two HD's from another machine

What operating system was on the other pc?

 

[-RockMan-]

I know this type of question has been asked a lot out there, but I have a bit of a twist on the problem that I haven't seen. I hooked up two HD's from another machine to check the condition of them. The HD's show up in BIOS but not in Disk Management. ? How do I get the computer to "see" them? The disks physically spin up and start working when the computer is booted, but they show up nowhere in any management screen. Help?

I recommend hirens bootcd and use minixp on the cd and use its diskmanagement tool.
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If it picks it up upon bootup, fix the drives so they will appear my making their partitions active.
However if they do not show up rightaway or at all I suspect the drives cable maybe going out.
Replace them if thats the case.