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Offline Aaron

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Hard Drive not accessible
« on: September 10, 2003, 17:01 »
Hello everyone.  I have a slight problem in that my secondary hard drive does not show in any windows related software but it is recognised correctly by both the bios and device manager.  I have checked MS knowledge base and their article is not applicable.  I would appreciate any help you can offer.
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Offline Michelle

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Re:Hard Drive not accessible
« Reply #1 on: September 10, 2003, 17:11 »
Hi Aaron

Sorry I personally can't help there but I'm sure someone who can will be along soon, I think they must all be having tea early  :)

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Re:Hard Drive not accessible
« Reply #2 on: September 10, 2003, 17:22 »
Breakfast for me actually Michelle  ;)

Aaron, has this just happening by itself or have you just added the secondary hard drive ?
If you have just added it have you formatted it ?
Which OS and file system are you using on both drives if different ?
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Offline Aaron

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Re:Hard Drive not accessible
« Reply #3 on: September 10, 2003, 18:29 »
Well to go into more detail it is the hard drive from my cousin's computer.  I wiped it to upgrade to XP because it was clogged up with a lot of rubbish. Now WinXP setup keeps crashing giving me the new look xp blue screen.  The information displayed gave me a problem with (and to be honest I can't quite remember exactly) msprint.c. Other errors came up too but they all restarted the computer instantly so I couldn't read them.  The machine I tried to put it on to format via windows was running XP pro.
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Re:Hard Drive not accessible
« Reply #4 on: September 10, 2003, 18:33 »
Aaron, what operating system is on the PC you are trying to fit the drive into?

If the drive was formatted on XP and you are trying to put it into an 98 or ME PC, the partition will not be seen as it is formatted NTFS rather than FAT16 or FAT32.
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Offline Aaron

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Re:Hard Drive not accessible
« Reply #5 on: September 11, 2003, 17:09 »
All the machines I have run XP Pro.  The hard drive in question has been formatted by XP setup using a NTFS.
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Offline Dack

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Re:Hard Drive not accessible
« Reply #6 on: September 11, 2003, 19:58 »
That might be your problem - if both are configured as bootable discs then you might be causing XP to throw a wobbler (tm)

If you do the Start, Control panal, computer administration, computer management, disk management

what does it say about the secondary disc?
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Offline Aaron

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Re:Hard Drive not accessible
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2003, 14:55 »
Hey!
I have solved the problem with the help of the last post.  According to 'computer management' under admin tools in control panel the hard drive had an 'unrecognisable/corrupt partition' I forced formatted the hard drive and it came online and there is nothing wrong with it now.  Thanks everyone for your help.
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Re:Hard Drive not accessible
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2003, 15:05 »
That's great news Aaron.  Thanks for letting us know.
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