not seeing second hard drive

[Guest franko]

My daughters old Dell 8200 desktop quit - we dont know what happened

but we suspect she left it on during a thunderstorm and perhaps there

was a tremendous jolt that the surge protector couldn't handle - not

sure though. The original symptom was 'it's dead' - no fan, no hum, no

beep, no led, no boot to bios, nothing at all...dead.

 

My suspicion was the psuu so i connected a known good one which

provided power to the mb (fan worked but still no beeps, no booting,

no anything). So then I reseated all the cards and all the memory

sticks. Nothing. I exchanged the display card. Nothing.Removed the

heatsink and reseated the cpu . Nothing.

 

We accepted that the computer is probabbly toast but wanted to try and

recover some data

 

Then I took the hard drive (an old 40gb ATA) out and installed it in

another computer as a second (slave) drive. It was tough to get the

machine to boot but I moved the master/slave jumpers around a little

on both hd 's and eventually got past the bios etc to Windows. Problem

is that this 2nd hard drive isnt seen by windows XP (via My Computer

or Windows Explorer). I guess usually one has to format it to be seen

but of course I cant do that.

 

Is there a solution?

Alternatively I thought of maybe buying an enclosure and trying to

read it via a USB connection as an external.

Thanks for any help to read the drive to enable some data recovery

 

F

[Guest Ed Mc]

Re: not seeing second hard drive

 

franko wrote:

> My daughters old Dell 8200 desktop quit - we dont know what happened

> but we suspect she left it on during a thunderstorm and perhaps there

> was a tremendous jolt that the surge protector couldn't handle - not

> sure though. The original symptom was 'it's dead' - no fan, no hum, no

> beep, no led, no boot to bios, nothing at all...dead.

>

> My suspicion was the psuu so i connected a known good one which

> provided power to the mb (fan worked but still no beeps, no booting,

> no anything). So then I reseated all the cards and all the memory

> sticks. Nothing. I exchanged the display card. Nothing.Removed the

> heatsink and reseated the cpu . Nothing.

>

> We accepted that the computer is probabbly toast but wanted to try and

> recover some data

>

> Then I took the hard drive (an old 40gb ATA) out and installed it in

> another computer as a second (slave) drive. It was tough to get the

> machine to boot but I moved the master/slave jumpers around a little

> on both hd 's and eventually got past the bios etc to Windows. Problem

> is that this 2nd hard drive isnt seen by windows XP (via My Computer

> or Windows Explorer). I guess usually one has to format it to be seen

> but of course I cant do that.

>

> Is there a solution?

> Alternatively I thought of maybe buying an enclosure and trying to

> read it via a USB connection as an external.

> Thanks for any help to read the drive to enable some data recovery

>

> F

I'm afraid I know ziltch about laptops but I know desktop mobo's

have a small battery. (Round camera type). The symptom's you describe,

no power, may be rectified by simply changing this battery. I have

done this in the past. Would be a fairly cheap diagnostic test anyway.

The other problem your having, no drive showing up, is a problem

I'm having right now. See my post (above yours): "Diskpart help". You

can check the BIOS of the working computer to see if it's recognized,

then check Disk Management, then Diskpart if needed. If these

utilities see the disk then you'll be in the same boat with me! You

may, however, be able to use Disk Mgmt. to rescan the drives, or,

assign a drive letter. Unfortunately for me, DM dosen't give me these

options. (Grayed out).

 

--

Semper Fi

[Guest franko]

Re: not seeing second hard drive

 

On Aug 15, 11:17 pm, Ed Mc <nam...@comcast.invalid> wrote:

> franko wrote:

> > My daughters old Dell 8200 desktop quit - we dont know what happened

> > but we suspect she left it on during a thunderstorm and perhaps there

> > was a tremendous jolt that the surge protector couldn't handle - not

> > sure though. The original symptom was 'it's dead' - no fan, no hum, no

> > beep, no led, no boot to bios, nothing at all...dead.

>

> > My suspicion was the psuu so i connected a known good one which

> > provided power to the mb (fan worked but still no beeps, no booting,

> > no anything). So then I reseated all the cards and all the memory

> > sticks. Nothing. I exchanged the display card. Nothing.Removed the

> > heatsink and reseated the cpu . Nothing.

>

> > We accepted that the computer is probabbly toast but wanted to try and

> > recover some data

>

> > Then I took the hard drive (an old 40gb ATA) out and installed it in

> > another computer as a second (slave) drive. It was tough to get the

> > machine to boot but I moved the master/slave jumpers around a little

> > on both hd 's and eventually got past the bios etc to Windows. Problem

> > is that this 2nd hard drive isnt seen by windows XP (via My Computer

> > or Windows Explorer). I guess usually one has to format it to be seen

> > but of course I cant do that.

>

> > Is there a solution?

> > Alternatively I thought of maybe buying an enclosure and trying to

> > read it via a USB connection as an external.

> > Thanks for any help to read the drive to enable some data recovery

>

> > F

>

> I'm afraid I know ziltch about laptops but I know desktop mobo's

> have a small battery. (Round camera type). The symptom's you describe,

> no power, may be rectified by simply changing this battery. I have

> done this in the past. Would be a fairly cheap diagnostic test anyway.

> The other problem your having, no drive showing up, is a problem

> I'm having right now. See my post (above yours): "Diskpart help". You

> can check the BIOS of the working computer to see if it's recognized,

> then check Disk Management, then Diskpart if needed. If these

> utilities see the disk then you'll be in the same boat with me! You

> may, however, be able to use Disk Mgmt. to rescan the drives, or,

> assign a drive letter. Unfortunately for me, DM dosen't give me these

> options. (Grayed out).

>

> --

> Semper Fi

 

the Bios sees both drives but WinXP doesnt