XMenFreek118
Technical User
Okay, this is really confusing to me, but I don't think I'm completely helpless.
My problem is that I have a WD hard drive that was originally set to slave, and a small 5GB set to master. Then I was going to install Windows XP on a new partition on my 80GB (the WD) hard drive with partition magic 8, but for some reason decided to change the WD to master.
After I did that, I booted from my 5GB hard drive with Windows XP, and the Western Digital didn't show up. So I changed it back to slave, and the 5G to master again.
Now Windows recognizes the disk but says it has not been formatted. I DO NOT want to format it, and have tried chkdsk and mbrfix (although I'm not sure if I used them correctly), and still XP tells me that I have to format it.
What do I do to get this back? This should have a simple explanation.
My problem is that I have a WD hard drive that was originally set to slave, and a small 5GB set to master. Then I was going to install Windows XP on a new partition on my 80GB (the WD) hard drive with partition magic 8, but for some reason decided to change the WD to master.
After I did that, I booted from my 5GB hard drive with Windows XP, and the Western Digital didn't show up. So I changed it back to slave, and the 5G to master again.
Now Windows recognizes the disk but says it has not been formatted. I DO NOT want to format it, and have tried chkdsk and mbrfix (although I'm not sure if I used them correctly), and still XP tells me that I have to format it.
What do I do to get this back? This should have a simple explanation.