re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer Friday, November 20, 2009 at 4:31 am Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by arney (1 messages posted) Forgive the intrusion but I ran into a similar problem. Replaced old drive with new one - formatted and bootable with XP home. Moved the old one to second SATA connection. Both drives recognized in bios and Device Manager. Both show up in Disk Management but the old drive does not have a drive letter and will not show up in Windows Explorer - so I can't get the data off of it. I switched the drives back - old one now bootable - and started in SafeMode. Both drives were readable. Archived the files from old drive to new one. Switched drives back - new one bootable - but the old one is still not readable. At lease I recovered the data that was important. If anyone has more suggestions, I would appreciate an explaination. Thanks On Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 10:04 pm, Steve wrote: >Sometimes when installing Windows that also has another Partition or Drive attached >the Partition Table on the other Drive accidently gets damaged during the install >causing the problem of Windows no longer being able to read the Drive. The >theory I once read is, if just 1 stray Bit of data gets written to the partition >Table during the install, that Windows thinks the Drive is no longer formated. I >had this actually happen twice in 2002. Ever since I disconnect any Drives with data >on them when installing Windows, or make sure any Data Partitions are empty or Backed >up somewhere off computer. Written in response to: re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Steve: Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 10:04 pm) Responses to this message: re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer (Steve: Friday, November 20, 2009 at 9:01 am) 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