Well, it's my other hard disk. A few months ago I had a second more sizeable hard disk installed on my computer, to give me room for sound files and pictures files and so forth.

It's been working fine, with Windows and the technical stuff on the origibal disk, and mostly data of one sort or another on the second bigger disk.

Well today I had to reinstall Windows, because something had gone wrong in the reguistry, and after trying to fix it, the man on the hotline said reinstall. And he said disconnect the second disk while It is that I was doing it, so that it wouldn't get wiped in the process. And most of the day that's what I've been doing, with steam rising out of my ears.

However, though I'm back in business, so far as writing stuff and getting on the internet and all that, there's a big BUT

It is that Windows refuses to recognise the existence of my second disc. Click there on My Computer, or look through Systems, and it just doesn't exist. But the computer knows it's there all right, because when it's powering up it flashes up stuff about primary and secondary discs, and masters and slaves.

And I've got lots of stuff on that disc that I'd really hate to lose - photos and songs and my wifde's lesson plans...

I know how to push the appropriate key that would get me into SETUP when I'm starting, and how to go about changing the settings there, and I suspect that the answer lies there - but I haven't a clue what changes to make.

Any kind soul out there who can advise? (The hotline charges 75 pence a minute, and half the time I can't make head nor tail of what they are saying. And those Idiot and Dummies books don't live up to the promise implied in their titles.)