- Help! My Secondary Drive is Unreadable!!
- Posted by Lynchy on October 12th, 2005
I am hoping you can help me. I have just re-formatted my system drive
with xp pro and now my secondary drive has become unreadable.
My system drive reads as a basic drive and the secondary drive reads as
a dynamic drive. The reason this is a problem is that there is over
100g of data on there I dont want to lose. Both drives are Seagate
Barracuda's and were both healthy before I re-installed xp pro.
Can anyone help me fix this problem??
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- Posted by Rich Barry on October 12th, 2005
Lynchy, before you reformatted the system drive was it Dynamic? Take a
look at this site for more info
http://www.theeldergeek.com/hard_drives_10.htm
"Lynchy" <Lynchy.1wspg2@no-mx.forum.osnn.net> wrote in message
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> I am hoping you can help me. I have just re-formatted my system drive
> with xp pro and now my secondary drive has become unreadable.
>
> My system drive reads as a basic drive and the secondary drive reads as
> a dynamic drive. The reason this is a problem is that there is over
> 100g of data on there I dont want to lose. Both drives are Seagate
> Barracuda's and were both healthy before I re-installed xp pro.
>
> Can anyone help me fix this problem??
>
>
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- Posted by Lynchy on October 12th, 2005
Yes, the drive was dynamic before I formatted. I have gone into BIOS to
see if the drive exists and in there it does. It seems its only Windows
that is having a problem seeing it.
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- Posted by Jaymon on October 13th, 2005
Lynchy,
You might try to connect the drive to an old Win 98se or older computer as a
slave drive, to see if it shows up that way, no guarantee it will work
though.. Or make an XP boot disk and add the NTFS reader and boot up your
computer with it and see if you can rescue your data that way, no guarantee
either, your call..
Get the Active NTFS Reader for DOS 1.0.2 here..
http://www.download.com/3000-2094-10225436.html
j;-j
"Lynchy" wrote:
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> Yes, the drive was dynamic before I formatted. I have gone into BIOS to
> see if the drive exists and in there it does. It seems its only Windows
> that is having a problem seeing it.
>
>
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- Posted by Rich Barry on October 13th, 2005
This site has some free Data Recovery Software
http://www.canadiancontent.net/tech/...very+Programs/
"Lynchy" <Lynchy.1wspg2@no-mx.forum.osnn.net> wrote in message
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>
> I am hoping you can help me. I have just re-formatted my system drive
> with xp pro and now my secondary drive has become unreadable.
>
> My system drive reads as a basic drive and the secondary drive reads as
> a dynamic drive. The reason this is a problem is that there is over
> 100g of data on there I dont want to lose. Both drives are Seagate
> Barracuda's and were both healthy before I re-installed xp pro.
>
> Can anyone help me fix this problem??
>
>
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> Lynchy
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- Posted by Lynchy on October 16th, 2005
Thanx for your help guys, I really appreciate it. You will not believe
what the problem turned out to be. My service pack one had corrupted so
I had to download a new one and install it. It turns out that dynamic
disk drives are unrecognizable on XP Pro without Service Pack 1.
Again Thanx
Lynchy
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- Posted by cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) on October 16th, 2005
On Sun, 16 Oct 2005 16:13:45 -0500, Lynchy
>Thanx for your help guys, I really appreciate it. You will not believe
>what the problem turned out to be. My service pack one had corrupted so
>I had to download a new one and install it. It turns out that dynamic
>disk drives are unrecognizable on XP Pro without Service Pack 1.
If using HDs over 137G, you have an additional reason to consider
applying SP2. SP1 support for > 137G has a few holes; some contexts
(such as dumping to disk when a system error occurs) are not OK for
over 137G and can corrupt the file system.
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