XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 4:42 pm Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by Todd Foster (3 messages posted) Primary (c:/) drive just faded away so I bought a new one. Previously, used two hard drives, both WD Caviars, SATA (perhaps sata II?). Reinstalled XP on the new drive and now XP won't read the old WD Caviar, which I had all my work on. I reformatted the new drive before I installed xp, but not the old one. XP recognizes my old drive, but claims it is not formatted. Obviously, I don't think i want to format it, but what to do? Here is what I do know. Everything seems ok in the bios files. Auto detect etc. Using a evga nforce 680i LT SLI Mobo intel dual core plenty of ram etc. All the posts on this matter I can find describe XP not even recogizing an old drive, but I can see it in My Computer, I just cannot read it because XP thinks it is not formatted. Any help appreciated. Todd Responses to this message: re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Sgt: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 5:16 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Todd Foster: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 5:21 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Todd Foster: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 4:42 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Sgt: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 5:16 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Todd Foster: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 5:21 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Sgt: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 5:29 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Todd Foster: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 9:08 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (C K: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 9:54 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Steve: Thu, Nov 19, 2009, 10:04 pm) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (MartinM: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 4:31 am) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (arney: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 4:31 am) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Steve: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 9:01 am) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Sgt: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 4:39 am) re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (alex: Fri, Nov 20, 2009, 5:37 am) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum