Are you resetting the slave/master/single jumpers correctly when you move the drives 
around?  Cable select is unreliable.







On Friday, July 29, 2005 at 10:03 pm, Michael in Seattle wrote:

>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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