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lost secondary hard drive HELP!
A couple of days ago I went to my PC and found a BSoD on screen, I
just put it down to the heat and rebooted. Wouldnt boot, kept getting blue screen errors (various) and eventually I unplugged my secondary hard drive and booted successfully. Whenever I plug the drive back in I get a BSoD, leaving it out Windows is okay. So I put the secondary drive in as a slave on another machine, and hey presto it boots. I caught a glimpse of the 'new device detected' blurb before it recognised it as a hard drive and the popup disappeared. But when I look in My Computer there is only the C drive listed! Device Manager shows the two drives okay and says there is no problem with it, but in Windows itself I cant 'see' it. Obvious solution is format it, but I cant do that - I have no backup of a huge folder of images on that drive (the secondary drive WAS my backup, and recently I formatted my main drive so I dont have another copy of its contents). Unfortunately there's no copy of Windows on that drive so I cant boot from it as a master. In Admin ToolsComputer Management it shows the second drive (no drive letter assigned) as "Online" and "Healthy". What can I do? ( By the way, both computers (my main and the temp one I tried loading it on) are running WinXP, one Home and one Pro. The hard drive is formatted as NTFS |
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lost secondary hard drive HELP!
"nothanks" wrote in message ...
A couple of days ago I went to my PC and found a BSoD on screen, I just put it down to the heat and rebooted. Wouldnt boot, kept getting blue screen errors (various) and eventually I unplugged my secondary hard drive and booted successfully. Whenever I plug the drive back in I get a BSoD, leaving it out Windows is okay. So I put the secondary drive in as a slave on another machine, and hey presto it boots. I caught a glimpse of the 'new device detected' blurb before it recognised it as a hard drive and the popup disappeared. But when I look in My Computer there is only the C drive listed! Device Manager shows the two drives okay and says there is no problem with it, but in Windows itself I cant 'see' it. In Admin ToolsComputer Management it shows the second drive (no drive letter assigned) as "Online" and "Healthy". What can I do? ( By the way, both computers (my main and the temp one I tried loading it on) are running WinXP, one Home and one Pro. The hard drive is formatted as NTFS To give us a better picture you could post a partinfo output. Get partinfo here- http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/PARTINFO.ZIP Read the included readme.txt file for instructions on how to run it. |
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lost secondary hard drive HELP!
I ahve had a similar problem recently,with an NTFS (XP Pro) slave disc.My
desktop crashed and will not revive. I removed the slave disc with all my documents on it. I bought a HD box with a power supply an usb connection. When I connect this to either an XP home (FAT 32) or Pro (NTFS) it conects but I canntot assign a drive letter. The disc management tool 'sees'it as a physical drive (disc 1) but I cannot assign a drive letter to it. This is also the situation if I place the disc inside a desktop running XP pro and set the drive as a slave. I could reformat the disc and lose about 1 months work but would raher not. I spoke with MS support in Austrlia but they were either unwillng or unable to help. Regards Larry North "Bill Blanton" wrote: "nothanks" wrote in message ... A couple of days ago I went to my PC and found a BSoD on screen, I just put it down to the heat and rebooted. Wouldnt boot, kept getting blue screen errors (various) and eventually I unplugged my secondary hard drive and booted successfully. Whenever I plug the drive back in I get a BSoD, leaving it out Windows is okay. So I put the secondary drive in as a slave on another machine, and hey presto it boots. I caught a glimpse of the 'new device detected' blurb before it recognised it as a hard drive and the popup disappeared. But when I look in My Computer there is only the C drive listed! Device Manager shows the two drives okay and says there is no problem with it, but in Windows itself I cant 'see' it. In Admin ToolsComputer Management it shows the second drive (no drive letter assigned) as "Online" and "Healthy". What can I do? ( By the way, both computers (my main and the temp one I tried loading it on) are running WinXP, one Home and one Pro. The hard drive is formatted as NTFS To give us a better picture you could post a partinfo output. Get partinfo here- http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/downloads/PARTINFO.ZIP Read the included readme.txt file for instructions on how to run it. |
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