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7.4

Windows XP doesnt recognize 2nd Hard Drive

Asked by jradams76 in Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: configuration, magic, number

Background: I have a P4 machine running windows XP on the C: and using the D: for games and other programs. Both are NTFS and C: is basic while the D: is dynamic (dont ask me why my friend set me up this way)

Last weekend we had a bad thunderstorm and my pc was off when I woke up the next morning and turned it on the D: was no longer there. I have used some of the DIY tools like iRecover to get some of my files off the D:  The D: is a 120 gig Maxtor and the C: is 30 or 40 gig so I really dont have enough room to recover all my files and was wanting to know can the D: be fixed?

Under disk managment XP sees the drive but its not active and when I activate it. It gives me an error. I have then used XP's recovery console to view the drives and when I type Map it shows all the drives and the D: is there but its drive letter is a "?" not D.   I have also used fixmbr and no luck with that either.  After using the diskpart tool and viewing the partition it says

partition 1
type 42
hidden yes
active no

There is no volume associated with this partition.

Viewing the disk information says:

Maxtor 6y120L0
Disk ID: 2eab6664
Type: IDE
Bus: 0
Target: 1
LUNID: 0
There are no volumes.

Event viewer gives me these message:

Disk group JeremyDg0: Errors in some configuration copies:
      Disk Harddisk1, copy 1: Block 0: Invalid magic number in the configuration copy

INTERNAL Error - The disk group contains no valid configuration copies  (C10000B6).

I tried to create a volume but it says not enough space to create a volume.  Is there anyway I can get my disk working again without fdisk and reformatting?



TIA
 
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