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Second Harddrive...

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radiocore

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I had an old copy of winxp on my system with a primary 40 gig HD and an additional 120 gig HD. Everything was working fine til I decided to reinstall WinXP on my system to clean everything up. So I dumped all my crap on to my 120HD and reformatted my 40 and reinstalled winxp. Now its up but when I try to access the second HD, it says the drive is not formatted and I can't read anything on the drive.

Anyone have any idea of how I can solve this problem? got some important stuff on that drive =*(
 
I might be rusty on this, but hear me out:
Your 120gb is more than likely formatted using NTFS, FAT32 (under 2k/xp) won't natively support partitions over 32gb. Is it possible you used an old 95 or 98 bootdisk to format the 40gb drive using FAT32, but it used to be NTFS, and now Windows is having difficulty reading the NTFS formatted 120gb harddrive off the FAT32 primary drive? I would think that XP wouldn't have any problem reading either format, but I could be wrong. It's the best I can offer at 7am anyway. 😉
 
Did you check to see if XP recognizes the drive? WHat do you see if you go into Control Panel -> Administrative Tools -> Computer Management -> Disk Management? Yyour path may be a little different, depending on which view you use.

I ran into this before moving drives around. Make sure that XP sees the drive and that it is initialized (?). I think you right click on the bold "Disk 1" in the lower right section. (Sure I don't have a screen shot).
 
Thanks for the info guys...

The primary wasn't installed off of a 98 boot disk...was xp all the way and was ntfs.

but right now...it only recognizes it as a 32 gig drive. =( but i still can't get in. says it needs to be formatted =*(

originally, it was like drive F. now its D. would that make a difference? if so, how can I change my dvd and cd rom so I can bump the secondary HD up.

Or might there be any software out there that I could use to retrieve some info from that drive, that way I could just reformat it after.

 
drive letter dsnt make a difference, you can change them in disc managment if you want.

what does your bios see? (i'm assuming you have gone into bios setup and checked)

am i understanding correct that the 40gb is showing as 32 and the 120 isnt there?

did you change jumper settings?
 
If it only recognises 32 gigs it was formatted in FAT 32, you can convert it to NTFS by opening a command prompt(press the Windows key and R) and type convert X: /fs:ntfs Where "X" is the letter of the drive you want to convert. The next time you reboot, Windows will convert your drive to NTFS.
 
no, i haven't touched the jumper since last time. but the thing about the fat32 is that before I reinstalled, it did recognize it as a 120gigs.

If I do the cmd prompt thing and convert, will I lose my data on thta drive?
 
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