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Failed in what way? *nt* Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 12:27 pm Posted by Tye Campbell (10 messages posted) . On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 12:25 pm, John Machin wrote: >I have installed a failed Maxtor 84320D4 hard drive from another PC (Win95) in to >my Dell Dimension XPS R450 (WinXP) to rescue the data. I have set jumpers to slave >and adjusted bios and both drives now appear in device manager. However, I cannot >see the slave in Windows Explorer or MyComputer in order to copy/paste the files. >Any ideas? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: 2nd hard drive Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 1:25 pm Posted by Ricer46 (21956 messages posted) If it's truly failed, I don't know why you even thought that might work. Your only chance is an (expensive) data recovery service. On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 12:25 pm, John Machin wrote: >I have installed a failed Maxtor 84320D4 hard drive from another PC (Win95) in to >my Dell Dimension XPS R450 (WinXP) to rescue the data. I have set jumpers to slave >and adjusted bios and both drives now appear in device manager. However, I cannot >see the slave in Windows Explorer or MyComputer in order to copy/paste the files. >Any ideas? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: 2nd hard drive Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 1:35 pm Posted by John Machin (10 messages posted) By failed, I meant it's no longer visible in it's own PC (Packard Bell 5 years old). Bootup floppy and Packard Bell CD do not help. Hard drive makes ticking noises sometimes (I believe bad sectors??). I was led to believe that I could rescue data by installing in another PC. As you can tell, I dont know much about these things - is this not possible? On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 1:25 pm, Ricer46 wrote: >If it's truly failed, I don't know why you even thought that might work. Your only >chance is an (expensive) data recovery service. > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: 2nd hard drive Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 1:44 pm Posted by xpadvisor (847 messages posted) As a lower cost alternative, try the Active@Undelete program or ONTRACK.they have trials that can at least show whether the data is acccessible before $$ fly. Good luck On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 1:35 pm, John Machin wrote: >By failed, I meant it's no longer visible in it's own PC (Packard Bell 5 years old). >Bootup floppy and Packard Bell CD do not help. Hard drive makes ticking noises sometimes >(I believe bad sectors??). I was led to believe that I could rescue data by installing >in another PC. As you can tell, I dont know much about these things - is this not >possible? > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: 2nd hard drive Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 4:38 pm Posted by Tom Myboy (290 messages posted) Right-click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management Does the drive show up as a foreign disk? If so, right click on where it says Drive1 and select "import foreign disk". On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 12:25 pm, John Machin wrote: >I have installed a failed Maxtor 84320D4 hard drive from another PC (Win95) in to >my Dell Dimension XPS R450 (WinXP) to rescue the data. I have set jumpers to slave >and adjusted bios and both drives now appear in device manager. However, I cannot >see the slave in Windows Explorer or MyComputer in order to copy/paste the files. >Any ideas? [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: 2nd hard drive Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 5:07 pm Posted by John Machin (10 messages posted) It does NOT show up in Disk Management although it DOES appear in Device Manager. On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 4:38 pm, Tom Myboy wrote: >Right-click My Computer > Manage > Disk Management > >Does the drive show up as a foreign disk? If so, right click on where it says Drive1 >and select "import foreign disk". > > [Reply or follow-up to this message] re: 2nd hard drive Saturday, October 25, 2003 at 7:45 am Posted by Brian (630 messages posted) I suspect you may have more serious problems, but I had the same symptoms with a new Seagate drive which would not appear in My Computer or Explorer until I mounted it using THEIR utility program downloaded from their site (free) - maybe MAXTOR is the same - check their site. On Wednesday, October 22, 2003 at 12:25 pm, John Machin wrote: >I have installed a failed Maxtor 84320D4 hard drive from another PC (Win95) in to >my Dell Dimension XPS R450 (WinXP) to rescue the data. I have set jumpers to slave >and adjusted bios and both drives now appear in device manager. However, I cannot >see the slave in Windows Explorer or MyComputer in order to copy/paste the files. >Any ideas? [Reply or follow-up to this message] Tip: Use one of the [Reply or follow-up to this message] links above to add a message to this thread Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows XP Discussion Forum