Hard drive problems with winxp x64

[Guest dtriana]

This is the story...

 

I recently bought some new parts for an old computer, one of them being a

sata drive. I went through the hassle of formatting that and now I have x64

on that drive and it is my primary boot drive. But I have two other drives

from the old computer that are IDE. I have them plugged in one as master and

one as slave. All three hardrives show up on device manager and disk

manager. But the slave IDE drive, 300gb, is not showing up on "my computer",

and in disk manager it says that it is unallocated. This hard drive was

slave to the other IDE drive with my old set up and work perfectly fine. I

used a certain disk recovery program to look at the hard drive and it says

that it still has all the old files.

 

Now the other drive, the Master IDE says that it is only 31.4 gbs and has

nothing on it. It is an 80gb drive and it has the old winxp x32bit on it and

other files, probably about 40gbs worth. But the catch is when I try to boot

up with that drive it says that it is corrupt. When I ran the same recovery

program it says that the partition seems too small.

 

What the hell is going on... And how can i fix this with out losing all of

my files...

[Guest Carlos]

RE: Hard drive problems with winxp x64

 

dtriana,

You have to go back in time, concentrate, and think of all the things you

did after you opened your PC cabinet for placing the new SATA drive.

- Are your "old" IDE drives in the same physical position as they were before?

- Did you relocate them in the cabinet?

- Are the master and slave jumpers in those drives in their original location?

You may find some clues there.

Other than that I would start the PC with a bootable CD (Linux distro or

whatever you like) and check the "readability" of the IDE drives.

If you can read your valuable data, then back it up to an external drive,

just to be on the safe side, and continue investigating later on.

Carlos

 

"dtriana" wrote:

> This is the story...

>

> I recently bought some new parts for an old computer, one of them being a

> sata drive. I went through the hassle of formatting that and now I have x64

> on that drive and it is my primary boot drive. But I have two other drives

> from the old computer that are IDE. I have them plugged in one as master and

> one as slave. All three hardrives show up on device manager and disk

> manager. But the slave IDE drive, 300gb, is not showing up on "my computer",

> and in disk manager it says that it is unallocated. This hard drive was

> slave to the other IDE drive with my old set up and work perfectly fine. I

> used a certain disk recovery program to look at the hard drive and it says

> that it still has all the old files.

>

> Now the other drive, the Master IDE says that it is only 31.4 gbs and has

> nothing on it. It is an 80gb drive and it has the old winxp x32bit on it and

> other files, probably about 40gbs worth. But the catch is when I try to boot

> up with that drive it says that it is corrupt. When I ran the same recovery

> program it says that the partition seems too small.

>

> What the hell is going on... And how can i fix this with out losing all of

> my files...

[Guest Charlie Russel - MVP]

Re: Hard drive problems with winxp x64

 

This is especially a potential problem if you are using cable select instead

of fixed master/slave jumpers. It's easy to end up with them swapped.

 

--

Charlie.

http://msmvps.com/blogs/xperts64

http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/charlie.russel

 

 

"Carlos" <Carlos@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:4D5FE467-8BC1-4669-8E7F-931BF2FFD6E2@microsoft.com...

> dtriana,

> You have to go back in time, concentrate, and think of all the things you

> did after you opened your PC cabinet for placing the new SATA drive.

> - Are your "old" IDE drives in the same physical position as they were

> before?

> - Did you relocate them in the cabinet?

> - Are the master and slave jumpers in those drives in their original

> location?

> You may find some clues there.

> Other than that I would start the PC with a bootable CD (Linux distro or

> whatever you like) and check the "readability" of the IDE drives.

> If you can read your valuable data, then back it up to an external drive,

> just to be on the safe side, and continue investigating later on.

> Carlos

>

> "dtriana" wrote:

>

>> This is the story...

>>

>> I recently bought some new parts for an old computer, one of them being a

>> sata drive. I went through the hassle of formatting that and now I have

>> x64

>> on that drive and it is my primary boot drive. But I have two other

>> drives

>> from the old computer that are IDE. I have them plugged in one as master

>> and

>> one as slave. All three hardrives show up on device manager and disk

>> manager. But the slave IDE drive, 300gb, is not showing up on "my

>> computer",

>> and in disk manager it says that it is unallocated. This hard drive was

>> slave to the other IDE drive with my old set up and work perfectly fine.

>> I

>> used a certain disk recovery program to look at the hard drive and it

>> says

>> that it still has all the old files.

>>

>> Now the other drive, the Master IDE says that it is only 31.4 gbs and has

>> nothing on it. It is an 80gb drive and it has the old winxp x32bit on it

>> and

>> other files, probably about 40gbs worth. But the catch is when I try to

>> boot

>> up with that drive it says that it is corrupt. When I ran the same

>> recovery

>> program it says that the partition seems too small.

>>

>> What the hell is going on... And how can i fix this with out losing all

>> of

>> my files...