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Hard drive recognition
Friday, July 29, 2005 at 10:03 pm
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Michael in Seattle
(4 messages posted)
Hi.
The previous set up on my computer was a windows 2000 operating system with all associated
programs on a 20 gig hard drive (C drive) and all other pictures and music files
etc saved on a 2nd 40 gig hard drive (D drive). I then upgraded to windows XP professional
and used a new hard drive (120 gig) for fresh install of the XP OS. I did this by
removing both drives and installing the new bigger drive as drive C. I then loaded
Windows XP (on the new 120 gig hard drive- C drive) rebooted and all was well. Then
I proceeded to 'plug in' my old D drive, now when I go to start> 'right click' my
computer> `click' manage opening up computer management> disk management, the old
D drive turns up as disk 1, unknown, online with a black bar above and I can’t access
it through windows explorer etc.
So as I figured I could not access it with the new install of win XP I pulled out
the new 120 gig hard drive and reinstalled my old 20 gig hard C drive with win 2000
and what used to be my old drive D thinking that I could burn the files on DVD and
the put in the new 120 gig hard drive, reformat the old 40 gig hard drive and copy
files back from the DVD's onto the new 120 gig hard drive. Now, under the old win
2000 my old D drive does not show up at all in the previous configuration. Again,
in disk management D drive turns up as disk 1, unknown, with a black bar above.
What do I do to access my old D drive under my new install of Windows XP? I have
not initialized nor formatted the D drive.
Thanks.
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