Primary Slave Hard Drive unable to access

Butchiem1 · March 17th, 2002, 11:08 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????

snaggle · March 17th, 2002, 11:15 AM

Partition magic has the option to hide partitions, Are you sure it's not hidden?

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snaggle · March 17th, 2002, 11:30 AM

Take a look!

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sorry mistake!

snaggle · March 17th, 2002, 11:48 AM

Take a look!

Butchiem1 · March 17th, 2002, 12:52 PM

Its definetly not hidden, as a matter of fact its showing the whole hard drive as active and healthy, but its not showing each partition in the hard drive, its just showing it as one huge partition. When I right click on it, it just gives me the options to exit, or delete the partition, everything else is greyed out.

JimG · March 18th, 2002, 09:34 PM

When you set it up, did you set things up as Primary/Logical and so on ... never heard of this problem before unless there was a problem with the drive or the controller.

March 18th, 2002, 09:42 PM

Is it jumpered correctly for slave, or set to cable select? The BIOS recognises the drive, but maybe it has given it slightly different parameters than it had previously, which will mean whatever was on the drive before can't be read. Funny it shows a partition, though it may be that it can't access the data because it thinks it's not formatted... as a test, try swapping back to Primary and see if it picks it up then.

So check the BIOS settings for the drive and compare with what it should be (should be written on drive). Dunno if this will help, but it's worth checking.