XP hard drive help

sean67854

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Oct 7, 2003
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I got some new parts for my computer yesterday (mobo, cpu, mem). After installing them and reinstalling XP on my primary master, it no longer assigns a drive letter to my primary slave drive.

Both drives are NTFS. The drive manager snap-in sees the drive and shows it as a Healthy, Active NTFS volume. When I right click on it, the only option I get is to convert it to a dynamic drive.

I tried booting into the XP recovery console. In there the drive is assigned a letter and I can change to it and I've run chkdsk /r on it twice, but it still doesn't get a letter under XP.

In the recovery console, if I try to cd to any directory other than the root of the second drive, It says access denied.

I had no encryption running on it.

All I really want to do is get some data off the drive.
 

acemcmac

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Mar 31, 2003
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try updating your bios. that made a big difference for me with my abit ic7. good luck. :beer: