Hard Drive not showing up

[romeo68]

i have 2 HDs.. both maxtor.. and its been running on XP fine for years now.. today.. i helped one of my friend fix his XP problem.. he brough over his HD.. i swap his HD with my primary HD... took care of the problem.. took his HD out.. and i accidently reboot my computer with only my secondary HD in it.. i quickly turn it off.. after that.. i pulg in my primary HD.. and boot in the XP... when i go into "my computer" it could not find my secondary HD.. does anyone know how to fix my HD problem? plz help!!!

 

[hjo3]

Go in to your BIOS, make sure the second drive is being detected. If it is, try using administrative tools to recognize it (Disk management ought to have something).

 

[John]

check the jumper settings, power, and ide cable

 

[romeo68]

i did.. i make sure its on "auto" the weird thing is sometimes it shows up.. sometimes it doesnt... and i did went in to disc management.. it can not find it either.. this never happened to me before.. damn.. i didnt backup any of my data or files.. =(

 

[hjo3]

> i did.. i make sure its on "auto" the weird thing is sometimes it shows up.. sometimes it doesnt...

Emmm... that's not good. My first thought is hard drive problems (like, hardware-wise). Try unplugging and plugging back in the IDE cable. Both on the HD and on the mobo itself. And maybe switch power connectors. If it continues, you might try testing the HD in another machine.

 

[romeo68]

man.. this sux.. i tried everything.. now it'll show up in the bios.. but when its on "auto" it'll take awhile for my computer to boot up.. take a while to get to the loading window xp screen.. before that.. it just a black screen.. at first i thought it froze.. but i waited a while.. it shows the window 2000 loading bar (with out the window 2000 words) and after that finally the loading window xp screen shows up.. but when i have the setting in bios set to "none", it load window xp normaly.. man.. this really sux.. now my computer is all mess up.. i tried go to safe mode.. wont show up either.. and i finally load the last working setting.. now it doesnt have any of my driver.. graphic card is all mess up.. the jumper setting should be correct cuz i didnt change any... i did unplug and replug.. why does it do that? shows up in bios.. but cant see it in window.. i think i also made the drive "dynamic" does that do anything..

 

[Sid59]

triple check your jumpers for that drive.

 

[romeo68]

another weird thing is when in bios set to auto.. the message by the HD shoudl be [Maxtor 5T060H6] now it says []oxtorb5T060H6" b5b5 qoqob5b5b5] why did this happen to me? i was just trying to help a friend out now my 60 gigs of stuff is gone..

 

[hjo3]

Oh my. I hope your drive is still under warranty. :Q

 

[Viper96720]

Try clearing your motherboards cmos.

 

[romeo68]

okay.. now somehow i got it to show up in the disk management.. it shows up as Disk 1 with an red x under it.. its dynamic drive and it says unreadable.. i'm going to keep on trying different things with it.. but if anyone know how to get my drive back.. plz help.. thanx..

 

[romeo68]

okay.. its now 4:23 in the morning... i tried everything.. now it shows up in bios everytime.. its also now under device manager... and it also shows up in disk management.. but i can not even view its property it says "unreadable" is my HD dead? i went in to fdisk.. under types it says "non-dos" i am not too sure if thats suppose to be normal? i thought it should be "NTFS"? and the usage says 100% also when i check out the properties under the system device.. under "volumes" is says disk: disk 1. type: dynamic. status: unreadable. partition style: Master Boot Record(MBR). capacity: 0mb. unallocated space 0mb. reserved space 0 mb. please tell me everyone on that HD is not gone... can i still back up the datas that are on there? i check the jumpers and play around with them.. still doesnt work.. donno what to do... why... if i change my disk 0 my main drive (c) and drive (d) to dynamic.. would it work? the drive that is not showing up is the drive (e)

 

[Viper96720]

It shouldn't be a dynamic disk. Try slaving it to your primary drive.

 

[romeo68]

i think the reason it's dynamic is cuz i converted it awhile back.. i did some reading.. it could be the dynamic disk problem.. i tried to dl SP1.. but my xp product key wont let me install it.. (microsoft says the sp1 might be able to fix the problem) i also come across to "file scavenger" it suppose to let me recovery my files.. however i couldnt figure out how to use it.. its now 6:00 am.. i'm tired.. someone out there must know something.. plz help me~

 

[DaviDaVinci]

Originally posted by: romeo68
i tried to dl SP1.. but my xp product key wont let me install it.. (microsoft says the sp1 might be able to fix the problem)

:Q:Q:Q:Q:

 

[John]

Originally posted by: romeo68
i tried to dl SP1.. but my xp product key wont let me install it.. (microsoft says the sp1 might be able to fix the problem)

Rule# 1: get rid of your pirated copy of XP Pro (most likely corp with the serial that starts with FCKGW)
Rule# 2: buy a legal copy of Windows XP Pro oem for 140.00 or pick up a NFR at a Microsoft seminar

 

[romeo68]

okay.. now with the Ontrack's EasyRecovery, i was able to see all my files in that drive.. it give me the option to recover it to my working HD.. but the thing is.. i have 60gigs worth of stuff that i need to recovery.. which it wont even fit.. since i can see the stuff on the HD.. it mean its still there.. there's gotta be a why to get the HD working with my XP... do you know how?

 

[emjem]

Run MaxBlast and let it analyze this hdd. If the boot sector is corrupted MaxBlast may fix it for you.