re: XP won't recognize Old XP Drive on same computer
Friday, November 20, 2009 at 5:37 am
Windows XP Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by alex
(2812 messages posted)
I would use a partition manager,there is a free EaseusPM at
>http://www.partition-tool.com/<
On Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 9:08 pm, Todd Foster wrote:
>Sarge:
>
>In reply to your last post, I cannot recall any event that damaged either drive.
> I had no indication anything but my c:/ drive was causing problems. Here is a
more
>detailed post I put up on another site.
>
>
>I run XP on the following:
>
>evga nforce 680i LT SLI
>Intel Core 2 8500
>800mhz memory
>2x 500gb WD Caviars 7200 rpm.
>
>I used one Caviar, we will call it the "Old C:/" for programs and windows. I used
>the second for data ("F:/").
>
>The Old C: started having problems and causing my video to stutter, sound to stutter
>etc. It had been a few years since I built this computer so I thought I would just
>do a clean install of XP on the Old C:/. XP didn't like the old c:\ and I couldn't
>reformat or install XP on it. After fighting it for an afternoon I just bought a
>new drive.
>
>Installed XP on the new drive and no problems. One thing however, my data f:/ drive
>that I kept all my files on was now the C:/ drive and my new drive was now the F:/
>drive. I found this strange as I did not delete the partition of the F:/ drive or
>format it during the windows install. I am almost dead certain of this because I
>was very worried I would select the wrong drive and do so.
>
>Most important, I could not access the files in my old data drive, and XP wanted
>me to format it. I did not.
>
>Having just enough knowledge to be dangerous around computers without being confident.
>I simply unplugged my old f: drive and reinstalled windows on my new drive. No problems
>installing, the new drive was now the C:\ and my data drive was back to f:\. Still
>couldn't access the f:\ drive. XP still says: "The disk in drive F is not formatted."
>
>Here is what Computer Management tells me:
>
>1. F:\ is healthy and active. It is Disk 1, Layout is a Partition, Basic Type, but
>the File System is Blank. File system is "Raw" and there are 0 bytes on both the
>used space and free space allocation. There is no file system (no NTFS indication).
>
>
>I checked the Bios and it is all set to auto detect, so no problems likely there
>in the sata controller. Besides, the new drive works just fine.
>
>To reiterate, as this is not the typical XP recognition problem, I have no problem
>accessing this drive, Windows just doesn't want me to access the files because it
>doesn't think it is formatted.
>
>Here is what I did that did not work:
>
>1. Unplugged the sata cables and switch them as I cannot recall if I put the right
>one back to the right drive, but I am not optimistic this will matter.
>
>2. Took the data f:\ drive out to see if it will work in my old Dell. Same problem
>in that Windows thougth the drive wasn't formatted.
>
>
>
>So would be grateful if anyone has any theories.
>
>Best,
>
>Todd
>
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