Hard Drive not accessible.

[Kelemvor]

Howdy,

Some friends were having HDD issues so I brought their drive home to copy their data off and load up their new drive. When I plug the drive into my system it doesn't show up as a normal drive. I can see if in Disk Manager but they have no drive letters. Any idea what I can do? I can't figure out how to do a Chkdsk or anything since they don't have drive letters for me to access. I haven't tried a boot CD yet but that's what I'll try next.

Here's a pic:
driveinfo.jpg

Thanks.

 

[QueZart]

You should be able to right click on the partitiion and assign a driver letter

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: QueZart
You should be able to right click on the partitiion and assign a driver letter

When I RIght-CLick the only option I get is to Delete Partition.

I tried booting directly to the drive and it does a chkdsk and then blue screens. Anyone know of a utility that might fix wahtever is wrong with the thing? I can use a recovery program which sees plenty of stuff so I think most of the drive is fine and the Chkdsk doesn't find any bad sectors or anything....

 

[myocardia]

Has this drive ever been formatted? If so, the boot sector is damaged. Try a fixmbr. Well, I just looked at your screenshot. That drive has a damaged boot sector. If fixing the mbr doesn't work, it will require a low-level format.

 

[Kelemvor]

Originally posted by: myocardia
Has this drive ever been formatted? If so, the boot sector is damaged. Try a fixmbr. Well, I just looked at your screenshot. That drive has a damaged boot sector. If fixing the mbr doesn't work, it will require a low-level format.

So should I boot from the XP CD I have with that drive in there and go to recovery console and try that or is there a better way to do that?