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re: Hard drive recognition
Saturday, July 30, 2005 at 12:00 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by MaddMaxx
(1985 messages posted)
You need the Acronis program to sort all this out.
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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- Hard drive recognition (Michael in Seattle: Friday, July 29, 2005 at 10:03 pm)
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