Second hard drive not visible in Windows XP

[JohnnyBallGame]

Been out all day, haven't had a chance to fool with it anymore, but I'll check out these options and let you know how it goes. Thanks!

 

[stevty2889]

You could also try testdisk. I have used it to successfuly recover partitions, even ones that were deleted.

 

[JohnnyBallGame]

Thanks for all of the replies.

I took stevty2889's advice and used testdisk and was finally able to get XP to recognize the drive. I changed the drive type to fat 32 and rebuilt the MBR, and was able to see it on the next boot.

Unfortunately, now it takes 5-10 minutes to boot (I think the newly recognized drive is confusing XP) and the system is very very slow, and it locks up when I try to access the drive to pull files from it. For now I've unplugged the drive to keep it from slowing down/crashing the system. Is there anyway to keep XP from being "confused" by this disk?

Thanks for all of the help.

John

 

[birdpup]

Are the drive jumpers set properly?

 

[dclive]

Originally posted by: JohnnyBallGame
Thanks for all of the replies.

I took stevty2889's advice and used testdisk and was finally able to get XP to recognize the drive. I changed the drive type to fat 32 and rebuilt the MBR, and was able to see it on the next boot.

Unfortunately, now it takes 5-10 minutes to boot (I think the newly recognized drive is confusing XP) and the system is very very slow, and it locks up when I try to access the drive to pull files from it. For now I've unplugged the drive to keep it from slowing down/crashing the system. Is there anyway to keep XP from being "confused" by this disk?

Thanks for all of the help.

John

I don't think XP's confused at all - it sounds like a hardware issue. I suggest putting it in another PC and seeing if you can reproduce the slowness problem. Check your jumpers. Check your cabling. Put the drive on its' own cable.