Hi, I have run into something i cannot solve,, and looking for any solution input i can receive
I have Windows XP Professional installed on a P-3 Dell Inspiron 8100 Portable computer, in my machine i have a 40GB internal hard drive and a 20GB Modular Hard Drive. I decided that i would re install everything into my machine as i had a severe error has occured every bootup, i exhausted every resource possible to try and resolve the serious error by disabling error reporting, removing the mini dump file, specifing virtual memory etc.. still got the error, so i decided i would run the repair utility.
In preperation to running the repair utility i placed all my files onto the second hard drive, which was formatted NTFS and known to winxp as a basic drive. I attempted to run the chkdsk /r on my drive c:, (which is also NTFS) with no results, it would not accept my administrator password, so i removed my Administrator password so it was blank and it still would not accept it when prompted to get into the repair console.. So I decided to do the windows repair within the setup, by pressing the enter button at the beginning of the setup, then choosing repair where it removes and re installs the Windows XP on the partition. Every thing went in as easy as can be, the machine now works great, except I cannot see my D: hard disk drive, I go into Disk Management and it says my drive is Foreign, i quickly researched to find i had to import it into the system by right clicking on it and going to import in disk management,, unfortunatly it does not give me the option to impor!
t it in,, only gives me convert to Basic and Properties when i right click on it.
If i choose convert it to basic , it wants to format it..
If i choose Properties i can see the properties.. they are as follows
Disk--Disk1,
Type--Dynamic, status forign, Partition style is MBR
Capacity 0MB
Unused Allocated space 0MB
Reserved is 0MB
The drive was NEVER setup as a Dynamic Drive, but now windows see's it as one, and i can't get into the recovery console. i Have 10GB of data backed up on this drive i need to get off it. Does anyone have any suggestions i can try that will not jepordize the data on drive D:, with my machine i can either have the floppy module or the drive module installed, but not both at the same time, a dongle cable is not available for my machine so i can have both installed at once..
Please Email me with any possible solutions, thanks in advance, rodney 😕
I have Windows XP Professional installed on a P-3 Dell Inspiron 8100 Portable computer, in my machine i have a 40GB internal hard drive and a 20GB Modular Hard Drive. I decided that i would re install everything into my machine as i had a severe error has occured every bootup, i exhausted every resource possible to try and resolve the serious error by disabling error reporting, removing the mini dump file, specifing virtual memory etc.. still got the error, so i decided i would run the repair utility.
In preperation to running the repair utility i placed all my files onto the second hard drive, which was formatted NTFS and known to winxp as a basic drive. I attempted to run the chkdsk /r on my drive c:, (which is also NTFS) with no results, it would not accept my administrator password, so i removed my Administrator password so it was blank and it still would not accept it when prompted to get into the repair console.. So I decided to do the windows repair within the setup, by pressing the enter button at the beginning of the setup, then choosing repair where it removes and re installs the Windows XP on the partition. Every thing went in as easy as can be, the machine now works great, except I cannot see my D: hard disk drive, I go into Disk Management and it says my drive is Foreign, i quickly researched to find i had to import it into the system by right clicking on it and going to import in disk management,, unfortunatly it does not give me the option to impor!
t it in,, only gives me convert to Basic and Properties when i right click on it.
If i choose convert it to basic , it wants to format it..
If i choose Properties i can see the properties.. they are as follows
Disk--Disk1,
Type--Dynamic, status forign, Partition style is MBR
Capacity 0MB
Unused Allocated space 0MB
Reserved is 0MB
The drive was NEVER setup as a Dynamic Drive, but now windows see's it as one, and i can't get into the recovery console. i Have 10GB of data backed up on this drive i need to get off it. Does anyone have any suggestions i can try that will not jepordize the data on drive D:, with my machine i can either have the floppy module or the drive module installed, but not both at the same time, a dongle cable is not available for my machine so i can have both installed at once..
Please Email me with any possible solutions, thanks in advance, rodney 😕
