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sata laptop drive not showing up in xp?

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rubix

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i have an asrock 4coredual-sata2 motherboard pc with winxp pro sp3.

when i remove my friends sata 2.5" laptop drive and connect it to my pc, either directly to my motherboard's sata ports or via a sata to usb adapter, the drive slowly gets recognized by xp, but the drive letter never shows up.

it also does not show up admin tools->computer management->disk management, so there is no way to assign a drive letter. it does show up in device manager and with no yellow or red symbols next to it.

now if i reboot my pc with the sata drive plugged in it will take xp a really long time to boot up. it will sit forever at the loading screen with the xp logo. that makes me think the drive is bad. BUT, when i put it in the laptop it loads up to vista just fine. why is that?

is it the crappy via chipset on my motherboard? i need to make this drive show up on my computer, not just in the laptop.
 
Is the drive set up in the BIOS?

Id not, the post routine will spend a lot of time looking for it.

It also has a primary, active partition. Two active partitions confuses Windows.
 
Originally posted by: Billb2
Is the drive set up in the BIOS?

Id not, the post routine will spend a lot of time looking for it.
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no, i didn't do anything with my bios settings. i will try, thanks. for sata to usb though i thought pretty much anything can be plugged in and show up?
 
Did the owner make this a Dynamic Disk? Dynamic Disks can't be read by some versions of XP and Vista. --- whoops. The OP has XP Professional on his motherboard. The only other thing with Dynamic Disks would be to try a "Rescan Drives" and an "Import Foreign Disk" on the new host XP Professional.
 
?!??! You do not have to configure anything in the BIOS if you are using a USB adapter. Also I don't think its a DD issue because the system should at least acknowledge the device even if it cant read its contents.
 
i tried messing with the bios settings on my computer and it does show the drive in it (a Toshiba MK1637GSX), but it still didn't get xp to make it show up. something is up with this drive or my system i guess?
 
what OS was installed on the system, if dualboot setup on the laptop, all OS's will need to be known, including what bootloader was in use?
 
Originally posted by: TheKub
Also I don't think its a DD issue because the system should at least acknowledge the device even if it cant read its contents.
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You are probably correct about it not being a DD issue because Windows XP Professional won't allow the creation of a Dynamic Disk on a portable computer.
 
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