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Second Hard Drive Lost After Reinstall
Hi all...
I've been reading through older messages in this group, but I can't find an answer to this particular problem. My brother's computer has two hard drives, a 200 gig and an old 30 gig he was using as backup storage. He had to reinstall Windows XP after a virus/worm infestation (after mistakenly turning off his Norton firewall for a couple of days.) Prior to reinstalling, Windows XP booted from the 200 gig, which had two partitions on it. The 30 gig drive was working normally. When reinstalling, he made the 200 gig one big partition but now the 30 gig does not appear in My Computer. Disk Management sees it, but the only option not ghosted out is Delete Partition. Both drives were and are formatted in NTFS. Is there any way to make Windows XP use this harddrive without losing the data on it? Any help or pointers will be appreciated. Brian |
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Brian Thorn wrote:
Hi all... I've been reading through older messages in this group, but I can't find an answer to this particular problem. My brother's computer has two hard drives, a 200 gig and an old 30 gig he was using as backup storage. He had to reinstall Windows XP after a virus/worm infestation (after mistakenly turning off his Norton firewall for a couple of days.) Prior to reinstalling, Windows XP booted from the 200 gig, which had two partitions on it. The 30 gig drive was working normally. When reinstalling, he made the 200 gig one big partition but now the 30 gig does not appear in My Computer. Disk Management sees it, but the only option not ghosted out is Delete Partition. Both drives were and are formatted in NTFS. Is there any way to make Windows XP use this harddrive without losing the data on it? Any help or pointers will be appreciated. Brian Has the 30GB drive been assigned a drive letter? . If not assign it thru disk management |
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You may also need to Initialize the drive once a letter has been assigned.
Bobby "Keith" wrote in message ... Brian Thorn wrote: Hi all... I've been reading through older messages in this group, but I can't find an answer to this particular problem. My brother's computer has two hard drives, a 200 gig and an old 30 gig he was using as backup storage. He had to reinstall Windows XP after a virus/worm infestation (after mistakenly turning off his Norton firewall for a couple of days.) Prior to reinstalling, Windows XP booted from the 200 gig, which had two partitions on it. The 30 gig drive was working normally. When reinstalling, he made the 200 gig one big partition but now the 30 gig does not appear in My Computer. Disk Management sees it, but the only option not ghosted out is Delete Partition. Both drives were and are formatted in NTFS. Is there any way to make Windows XP use this harddrive without losing the data on it? Any help or pointers will be appreciated. Brian Has the 30GB drive been assigned a drive letter? . If not assign it thru disk management |
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Brian Thorn wrote: Hi all... I've been reading through older messages in this group, but I can't find an answer to this particular problem. My brother's computer has two hard drives, a 200 gig and an old 30 gig he was using as backup storage. He had to reinstall Windows XP after a virus/worm infestation (after mistakenly turning off his Norton firewall for a couple of days.) Prior to reinstalling, Windows XP booted from the 200 gig, which had two partitions on it. The 30 gig drive was working normally. When reinstalling, he made the 200 gig one big partition but now the 30 gig does not appear in My Computer. Disk Management sees it, but the only option not ghosted out is Delete Partition. Both drives were and are formatted in NTFS. Is there any way to make Windows XP use this harddrive without losing the data on it? Any help or pointers will be appreciated. "Keith" wrote in message ... Brian Has the 30GB drive been assigned a drive letter? . If not assign it thru disk management Brian: As you pointed out, all the options in Disk Management are grayed out save the one for "Delete Partition", so obviously you can't assign a drive letter. It's an anomaly in XP that I and other users have also encountered. First of all, I'm assuming that the drive in question is jumpered correctly and the IDE cable connection is properly seated. I'm also assuming that your newly partitioned boot drive is working properly. Assuming that this is so, the only satisfactory workaround I've found is the following... 1. Power down the computer. 2. After checking that your jumper setting and cable connections (both to the IDE controller on the motherboard and the drive as well) are as they should be, disconnect the cable from the drive. 3. Boot the computer. 4. Shut down the computer and reconnect the drive. 5. Boot up again. Hopefully the drive should be recognized by the system and a drive letter assigned to it. If not, check again in Disk Management and determine what options, if any, are available. Good luck. Art |
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On Thu, 11 Nov 2004 10:41:57 -0500, "Art"
wrote: As you pointed out, all the options in Disk Management are grayed out save the one for "Delete Partition", so obviously you can't assign a drive letter. It's an anomaly in XP that I and other users have also encountered. First of all, I'm assuming that the drive in question is jumpered correctly and the IDE cable connection is properly seated. I'm also assuming that your newly partitioned boot drive is working properly. Assuming that this is so, the only satisfactory workaround I've found is the following... 1. Power down the computer. 2. After checking that your jumper setting and cable connections (both to the IDE controller on the motherboard and the drive as well) are as they should be, disconnect the cable from the drive. 3. Boot the computer. 4. Shut down the computer and reconnect the drive. 5. Boot up again. Hopefully the drive should be recognized by the system and a drive letter assigned to it. If not, check again in Disk Management and determine what options, if any, are available. No joy. Thanks for the help. I guess I'll tell him to get Partition Magic and try that. Brian |
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