I have a lot of Windows experience, so please take that into consideration when offering a suggestion. I re-installed Windows this weekend, and I did it on a new hard drive. Clean install, formatted HD with NTFS. Everything works great. Now I'm trying to add my old hard drive and I'm not having any luck. My old hard drive is a 60 GB Maxtor 5T060H6 that I had partitioned had partitioned as 15 GB for C and the rest for D.
The second hard drive doesn't show up at all in My Computer. It does show up in Computer Management > Disk Management as Disk 1 with a Basic Partition of 15 GB. The only option I seem to have at this point is to make it a "dynamic disk" which I doubt will help. The drive shows up as 60 GB.
I tried using Partition Magic 7, but it only shows the entire disk and when I try to assign it a drive letter, it doesn't let me.
I'm sure my controllers are fine since I hooked up another hard drive I had (one partition) and was able to read/write to it.
Any ideas are appreciated - the data I'd like to get to is the second D drive. And I'll eventually wipe out the C partition as my new hard drive is fulfilling that need.
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Ok try this
Boot to the Recovery Console and then run this command
MAP
If you see it list the drive and its partitions then use the driver lettes you see do this
chkdsk TheDriveLetter: /r
To start the Windows Recovery Console, use any of the following methods:
Start your computer by using the Windows Setup floppy disks or the Windows CD-ROM. At the "Welcome to Setup" screen, press F10 or press R to repair, and start the Windows Recovery Console.
Stop !!!
If the second HD isn't found by XP, you have a config. problem. Check your jumpers carefully. You may not have reset the old drive to slave.
If you didn't, the new drive is forcing master and the old is in limbo. Check the BIOS. Is the parameter list for the old drive right?
If both of these are OK, then rejumper the old drive to master, remove the CD, and put it primary on the secondary controller.
Boot to 98 from a floppy. If you do not get ALL drives and partitions showing up, you have a HW config. problem.
XP will almost ALWAYS detect drives, even if CDs are "in the way", whereas 98 got confused.
Is the old drive NTFS? Is the partition of the second volume on it beyond the NTFS limit?
You need to do all this before using Partition Magic, which can render the drive unreadable if it is not detected correctly.
Tell me which worked.
Have you tried using the DISKPART command line tool
https://www.microsoft.com/
c:\>DISKPART
DISKPART>assign [{letter=d|mount=Path}] [noerr]
gemarti - the "assign" command applies to dynamic disks only, and my second hard drive is not a dynamic disk (at least according to "Disk Management")
The "add disk" command for the diskpart tool looks like it would accomplish what I'm looking for. However, it contains this warning:
You cannot assign drive letters to system volumes, boot volumes, or volumes that contain the paging file. In addition, you cannot assign a drive letter to an Original Equipment Manufacturer (OEM) partition or any GUID Partition Table (GPT) partition other than a basic MSDATA partition.
And my second disk does have a (working) XP installation on c. I can plug in my cables to the 2nd disk as disk1, reset the jumpers so it's a master and everything works as expected. Now I just want to make that disk a slave and get all my data off it (as well as eventually delete the first (c) partition).
Check your Right-click options in the "Drive area" of the disk management (If you look at any one disk in disk managment, you have the drive info (extreme left of drive, that says something like "disk 0", basic, 60 GB, Online), and the Medial area (where your partitions are); see if you have the option "Import foreign volume" If you do, that is your fix.
I tried for the last couple of weeks to get this working, but failed, so I gave up. I tried removing the paging files from both drives, but no luck. We moved over the weekend, and after moving all my files from my old (2nd) hard drive to another computer, I plugged the 2nd hard drive in, and was prepared to format it. Lo and behold, it came up and was recognized. The only thing I can think of is I removed the jumpers so it was set to "slave" rather than "cable select." I swear I tried this before, but maybe not. Since this is all I can think of that might've fixed it, and sciwriter mentioned checking the jumpers - that's who I'll give the points to. Thanks to all for your contributions.
I have similar issue, but I can't resolve this yet:
I had two maxtor drives each 30GB one which had XP on it and other which I was using for storing data. XP crashed on me and subsequently I added a new disk Hitachi 180 GB. I installed XP fresh on Hitachi and copied files from Maxtor disk which originally had XP on it. Later I disconnected the maxtor disk which originally had XP and then connected the other maxtor disk which has data on it. After doing this, I don't see the maxtor disk in "My Computer"; it does appear in the "Disk Management" as "unallocated space". I checked my jumpers, maxtor 30GB disk is slave and Hitachi 180 GB is the master; both the disks are on the same cable. I tried connecting maxtor 30GB drive to another cable/channel but still no help. Currenly I have both drives on the same cable. I would appreciate if you can tell me how I can get XP to recognize this drive so that I can get data from this disk. thanks
i have this problem on windows 2003 server and come to think it's form somewere in service section of the windows that is because windows 2003 has a minimal service startup (new ideea of security beahh)
i had no time to look for this service that is disabled(/manual/no on auto ... what ever) in win2003 by comparing to an winxp instalation(working) but i'm sure this is the problem .... and don't bother changing cables,jumpers or any of that stuff ... it just won't find&mount those partitions ... all u can se is that the hdd is found corectly but instead of partition letters u get a big fat RAW type partition
hope that someone with time can find that service ... i'm sure this is the solution (well... part of it)
good luck
btw ... don't play with the services if u don't know the full implications of ur actions
ok.... i got a little busy ... and got the solution 4 u before i have submitted this
here it is: make sure u have these services started :
Local Disk Manager &
Local Disk Manager Administrative Service <- this is the one u probably don't have started (put it on auto or someting .. btw, it's a great way to secure ur information ... think of it ... if u have no floppy/net card .. no new hdd without this service on will be monted proprely on the system
BUT... i don't know if it works... don't have an extra hdd at the moment ...
IF and only IF(don't wanna have to many services started with no purpose) this doesn't work ... look also at these services to be started:Removable Storage,Virtual Disk Storage,Volume Shadow Copy+Microsoft Software Shadow Copy Provider
this is it
I had the same problem. After a bit of research I figured it out. It would appear drives that have GoBack installed will not be recognized by Windows XP due to changes GoBack makes to the MBR. The solution is to simply put the hard drive back into the old computer and uninstall GoBack. This is done in two steps. First you need to hit the Space Bar while booting to access the GoBack menu. From this menu you need to disable GoBack. Once GoBack is disabled you need to load Windows and uninstall GoBack. Worked like a charm for me. Hope this helps!
Cheers!
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I have a similar problem to some mentioned earlier but with a twist. I have a Dell laptop running win xp. My internal HD crashed so I bought and installed a new and put my XP back on there. I have a docking station with a built in HD also but when I dock my laptop the drive never appears. I have checked the properties on the drive and I have no errors, the drive just is not mounting anywhere. In disk management The drive shows up as Dynamic and Foreign. I can't do anything to the drive because I have a lot of backup stuff on there I can't afford to lose. My right click options are "Convert to Basic Disk" "Properties" and "Help". Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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by: CrazyOnePosted on 2003-07-13 at 20:11:34ID: 8914257
In disk management see what driver letter it has assigned to partitions then do this
Start > Run chkdsk TheDriveLetter: /r