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Butchiem1 · March 17th, 2002, 10:08 AM

I pulled out a Western Digital Hard Drive that I had on my system (working ok), and installed a newer Western Digital Hard Drive that I had from an older computer, I formatted the newer hard 2 partitions (NTFS - approx. 10GB & 19GB) drive and installed Win XP with no problem. Afterwards, I installed the Older hard drive as Primary Slave (in order to get documents/photos/data that I needed).

When I restarded XP, I went to My Computer but only the two Partitions from the Newer drive were there. I went to system management to see what was there (in the XP version of Partition Magic) I see the Newer drives two partitions, but the older drive is showing there with one partition (It had two partitions before), no drive letters, but it does say it is healthy and active, but it wont let me access it.

Can someone please help????

March 17th, 2002, 10:08 AM	#1 (permalink)
Butchiem1 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2002 Posts: 5	Primary Slave Hard Drive unable to access I pulled out a Western Digital Hard Drive that I had on my system (working ok), and installed a newer Western Digital Hard Drive that I had from an older computer, I formatted the newer hard 2 partitions (NTFS - approx. 10GB & 19GB) drive and installed Win XP with no problem. Afterwards, I installed the Older hard drive as Primary Slave (in order to get documents/photos/data that I needed). When I restarded XP, I went to My Computer but only the two Partitions from the Newer drive were there. I went to system management to see what was there (in the XP version of Partition Magic) I see the Newer drives two partitions, but the older drive is showing there with one partition (It had two partitions before), no drive letters, but it does say it is healthy and active, but it wont let me access it. Can someone please help????