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Hard Drive Recognition Problem

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WillBurt

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My boss recently had his computer crash. He had a 30gig Master and a 160gig Slave Setup. He was running XP w/sp2. He replaced the 30gig that crashed and wants to continue to use the 160gig as the slave. Here's the problem.

XP doesnt show the drive Under My Computer thus we cant access it.

What I Do know
-BIOS is setup correctly and reads the drive
-Jumpers are correctly Assigned
-IDE Cable is GOOD
-Device Manager sees the drive and does not find anything wrong with it
-Under Disk Managment the drive IS there BUT when you right click the 160gig disk EVERYTHING is grayed out besides Partion and Help.

Any Advice is greatly apprecaited...
 
Originally posted by: WillBurt
My boss recently had his computer crash. He had a 30gig Master and a 160gig Slave Setup. He was running XP w/sp2. He replaced the 30gig that crashed and wants to continue to use the 160gig as the slave. Here's the problem.

XP doesnt show the drive Under My Computer thus we cant access it.

What I Do know
-BIOS is setup correctly and reads the drive
-Jumpers are correctly Assigned
-IDE Cable is GOOD
-Device Manager sees the drive and does not find anything wrong with it
-Under Disk Managment the drive IS there BUT when you right click the 160gig disk EVERYTHING is grayed out besides Partion and Help.

Any Advice is greatly apprecaited...
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Sounds like the drive got wiped.
If everything in Disk Management is grayed out except 'Partition', that means that Windows sees it as a blank disk.
 
Originally posted by: ayabe
So it's booting off of the "new" 30 GB right? But you can't access the old 160?
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Correct

Im really confused as to why windows would see this as a blank disk. I understand your logic though.

One other thing. In disk managment it DOES show that there is used space on the 160gig drive. Dunno if that means anything or not.
 
Does Disk Manager show the volume as "Failed"?
If so, right-click and activate it.
 
Ok, another update
Using Windows Recovery Console I was able to run CHKDSK with switches /p and /r but the drive still doesnt show up in windows.
I also tried to access the directories using RConsole and it gave me a "access denied" message... blah
 
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