richardheggie
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Slave Hard Drive. Access without having to format.
I have a second 100MB Maxtor slave hard drive. I partitioned it with Maxblast. The main system running Windows XP became so slow I decided to re-install. I backed up EVERYTHING using Backup devil to the slave Maxtor drive. It was all copied and accessibility checked. It was all there. Carried out re install and wow the speed now makes it all worth while...BUT initially Windows refused to recognise the slave drive at all. Running Maxbalst got it to recognise the drive as K. But it now says it is a 30 gig disk and wants me to format it! How can I access all my old data on the slave drive without formatting....if I lose all our photos then I am a dead man!
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What operating system was on it? and what file system?
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OS is XP. Main boot drive is NTFS but on checking the "Properties" of the slave K drive in My Computer it shows a RAW as the file system. Also it shows that there is neither any used space or free space.
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To clarify...this drive has worked perfectly in the recent past...jumpers set properly. It originally started out with capacity issues but Maxblast sorted this out and the full 100Gb was recorded. BIOS shows the drive..I will check what size it shows. As I say the data is all on the drive because I checked it was all there prior to re-installing XP. I will try the initialisation point. Thanks everyone.
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