Cannot see C: drive in a slave harddrive 1

[PCBull]

I have an old hard drive, being partitioned with C: and D: drive before, installed as a slave drive in a new PC. The new PC has its own new C: and new D: drive partitioned from the new master drive.

However, being an slave drive, the old harddrive shows only the data content from the old D: drive (appeared as L: drive in the new PC), and the old C: drive in the slave harddrive disappears!

Can anyone show me how to recover data in the old C: drive from the slave drive? Thanks.

 

[G0AOZ]

Tell us what operating systems are installed on both drives. The fact that the old drive is being slaved to the new one should have no bearing on what partitions are available. If, however, the new drive was running say Windows 98, then it would not be able to see an NTFS partition on the slave drive.

Maybe the first partition on the old drive is already damaged? If so, data recovery software like GetDataBack or Easy Recovery Pro may well be the answer...

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[mainegeek]

PCBull,

As GOAOZ has mentioned,knowing what OS is on the boot drive and what is on the old would be helpful. Also, any other devices on your system that has a drive letter assigned to it. ie:CD-Rom(s),USB drives,Camera,card readers......

 

[PCBull]

Both old and new PC have Windows XP Home Edition. The old C: drive was not damaged since I can still use it in the old PC and view all the data contained in it. But the old PC only lives for less than a few minutes before clashed, no enough time for me to move the old data to the new PC through LAN.

 

[G0AOZ]

Have you looked in Disk Management? Maybe you need to just allocate the "missing" partition with a drive letter for it to be available.

ROGER - G0AOZ.

 

[PCBull]

Thank you, Roger.

I was able to view the old C: drive now after re-configuring in Disk Management thanks to your suggestion.