Problems recognizing second (slave) Hard Drive

[jonnyapple83]

While I reformatted and reinstalled windows XP Pro on my smaller master hard drive, I noticed that my large (data, music, movies, games) hard drive was recognized in an unusual way. Instead of having a drive letter like D: it had -: and the file system recognized was called dynamic volume (instead of NTFS, like it should have been). Once Windows was fully up and running my fears became realized, that windows would not let me access this hard drive (although device manager recognized that it was connected to the system).

Does anyone know how I can get back the use of this hard drive (which has a lot of data on it) without totally reformatting it and repartitioning it with a fresh file system?

 

[GregANDTCH]

What does "administrative tools"
"computer management"
under control panel
show you?

 

[acemcmac]

Originally posted by: GregANDTCH
What does "administrative tools"
"computer management"
under control panel
show you?

agreed. It's gunna depend on a lot of different factors... especially if you had any sort of login-dependant encryption.

I don't envy you in the least. Good luck :beer:

 

[jonnyapple83]

Well I think I got it figured out! I hit the populate button under the drives properties and got semi-reliable access to the data, after that I used your guys advice and changed it back to a basic disk via administrative controls. Thanks for the help!