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Maxtor DM10 200GB SATA150 problem

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R3MF

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Hey ho all,

bit of a conundrum here, just built my new PC which consists of:
X2 3800+
2x 512 PC3200 Cas2.5
MSI 7900GT
Samsung 250GB SATA (main drive)
Maxtor DM10 200GB SATA 150 (storage drive)
MSI K8NGM2-FID

I cannot see the Maxtor drive in Explorer, however, it is both recognised and enabled in Device Manager.
On the other hand, the Disk Management tool for arranging partitions will not see the drive at all.................

is the drive there or not?

any help with this would be appreciated

R3MF
 
If it's detected by Device Manager, then I can presume it's also detected by the bios. Have you tried switching to another SATA port? Explorer will not see the hdd until it is partitioned and formatted. But I am surprised it is not recognized or detected by Disk Management. This is supposed to be the place to partition and format it after being initialized.
 
I will try another SATA port but i don't think it will change anything.

This is a partitioned and formatted drive, it is a single 200GB NTFS partition with all my useful stuff on it.

Disk managment does acknowledge its existance, but it has a tiny yellow warning symbol on the left and the label "foreign" and there is no bar on the right where partitions would be graphically displayed..........?

does this go any way to explaining the problem:
http://66.249.93.104/search?q=cache:Ef0...en&gl=uk&ct=clnk&cd=9&client=firefox-a
Page 20 in the inset paragraph on "Importing"
mentions something about dynamic volumes (which this is) from another system needing to be imported under Server 2003. but i can find no import tools in XP. 🙁

cheers
 
go to control panel/administrative tools/computer management/disk management and see the right bottom screen. The upper right screen will show active drives but the bottom will also show inactive drives. If you see it, you need to activate the drive by right clicking on it and choosing the activaet option.
 
Originally posted by: RanDum72
go to control panel/administrative tools/computer management/disk management and see the right bottom screen. The upper right screen will show active drives but the bottom will also show inactive drives. If you see it, you need to activate the drive by right clicking on it and choosing the activaet option.
Click to expand...

i don't have any area in the bottom of the screen with inactive drives.

i just have the Maxtor shown in the main part with a warning sign, the tag; "foreign", and no graphical bar displaying the partitions.............

device manager knws it is there, and yet computer management will not allow me to do anything with it.
 
you made a major boo boo by hooking up a drive that was ALREADY a dynamic volume, unbeknownst to original drive and O/S.

http://www.petri.co.il/difference_betwe...amic_disks_in_windows_xp_2000_2003.htm

there are ways to change back, but you better be very careful, or you will lose everything

http://faq.arstechnica.com/link.php?i=1806
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;309044&sd=tech

Note that these solutions are for those dynamics created after initial O/S install - not something swapped in.

a safe way is to backup data on original or yet anoither HDD, delete dynamic, reform as basic, reinstall data.

Edit: if you can use new HDD space disc normally, even tho it does not allow config in Disk Manager, then there is no prob, since dynamic vols are not any SET size - they are like paging files expanding and contracting controlled by Windows. That explains DM anomoloies. But I would never think of using a dynamic volume, because its just asking for trouble, at least for home user.



 
thank you for the reply,

i thought the problem was something to do with it being a dynamic volume.

the data i am not bothered about, i had it backed up on an external drive, and have since copied it onto my main Samsung drive.

all i really want to do is format the Maxtor so that it can be used in my new PC, without it being rejected as a "foreign" drive.

my problem lies in that i cannot get Disk Manager to do anything with it, so i cannot format it as things stand now.

is there another lower-level way that will allow me to format the drive for use in the new PC?

kind regards

R3MF

 
no i didn't because i am not trying to backup/preserve the data.

i don't have access to partition manager i'm afraid. 🙁

surely i can do it in windows?
 

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