Windows 10: Installed Windows 10 on Acer Laptop; My 2nd Drive not mounted?

Discus and support Installed Windows 10 on Acer Laptop; My 2nd Drive not mounted? in Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade to solve the problem; Okay so long story short I thought I could convert to Linux Debian full time but it didnt work. I have a Acer Aspire Laptop Model A315-22, so I... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Installation and Upgrade' started by jliving207, Mar 31, 2021.

  1. Installed Windows 10 on Acer Laptop; My 2nd Drive not mounted?


    Okay so long story short I thought I could convert to Linux Debian full time but it didnt work. I have a Acer Aspire Laptop Model A315-22, so I probably put some miles on my SSD distro hopping unable to find stability like we have here at windows so anyways I came back booted up official ISO from microsoft.com, Installed everything went good (I diskpart command the 2 drives before) went custom install > chose my SSD (thinking it would install like last time to both drives) but when I got to my Desktop for the firstime and checked it out, I didn't see my 2nd Hard Drive. So I forgot to mention I have a 256 GB SSD and a 500 GB HDD Internal volumes in the laptop it's a fairly new machine so everything should be good to work with for a while. Now my concern isn't with not being able to found my drive , I pulled up Disk Management > Created a new partition Table on the HDD (that wasn't allocated) formatted it in NTFS and gave it a name and drive letter. Rebooted, now I see my HDD as it mounts when I enter my Desktop, but is there any concern with the Partition scheme? Because I am not sure how windows 10 has all my drives partitioned. Remember my SSD only has 256 GB and I got an extra 500 GB that is on my HDD. I was going through a tutorial and I saw someone recommend running diskpart or something on the drive after it has been formatted and it really confused the hell out of me. Should I change any thing? If so what, and or any useful information would be appreciated, I can supply any other information you may need to know about my system.

    Here is where I found the guide on getting the Hard Drive working just so if your wondering about what I mean about the guide being really unusual at the end it might just be troubleshooting if the first option didn't work but not sure:

    How to Fix Hard Drive Not Showing up in Windows 10

    Warm Regards,

    James

    :)
     
    jliving207, Mar 31, 2021
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    Delta6326, Mar 31, 2021
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  3. Scrizz Win User
    Windows 10

    no, you can't go back..
    I suggest creating a backup image of your os drive
     
    Scrizz, Mar 31, 2021
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    windows xp installation and dual core am

    could someone please list the steps they follow to install windows with a dual core processor and windows xp service pack to. I'm reletively new to amd dual core and i feel i'm missing a step. All help will be appreciated. thanx
     
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