Seagate drive not formatted??

[linkc]

Recently upgraded my server MB,CPU,Ram.... First boot gave me disc read errors/error loading os "expected that" so i unplugged all drives except primary master "Maxtor 120 gig", and secondary slave "CD-ROM, Liteon CD-RW" Reinstalled windows "XP Pro" and plugged other 2 HD's in. "Maxtor 120 gig and Seagate 120 gig" both drives were recognized in device manager, however when trying to access the maxtor, it would pop up a "Cannot locate install.exe which is needed to access files of this type" I could still access it on the network from other pc's. When trying to access the Seagate drive it simply stated the drive was not formatted. Assuming the maxtors drive problem had something to do with dynamic drive overlay, i went ahead and did all my windows updates and it started working fine. The seagate still shows to not be formatted. Both drives were working fine that day before i upgraded and reinstalled windows. Not jolts or shocks to the pc during this time. I was also grounded while working on the pc. Any ideas???
(tried to access the drive with seatools and it says the drive is fine...dont recall if i had the drive set as dynamic before upgrading, but now i dont have the option to change it)

TIA,
linkc

 

[edfair]

Has been a while, but if I remember correctly the drive overlay would have been on the boot drive to give access to the drive with non-standard filesystem.
The XP install would probably have overwritten any existing overlay.

Since other machines can access it you probably need to suck the data off and put it back together clean.


Ed Fair
Give the wrong symptoms, get the wrong solutions.

 

[linkc]

OOOPS.... my bad. The drive i could access over the network was the Maxtor before i got the DDO problem corrected. Never could access the Seagate.

Is it possible that the file allocation table for that drive was on the primary master? surely not....??? "I sure hope not

 

[edfair]

Allocation table is on each individual drive, so that isn't at issue. And probably NTFS rather than FAT.
Since mangler sees it something is out there. How about trying to format it? Haven't had any experience with multiple disks and XP, so will plead ignorance on where to go next.

 

[linkc]

Trying to avoid formatting it due to delicate data that im not willing to lose without a fight.