Unable to See Hard drive

[parallex]

Hey All,

I have a 30gb ATA drive that i am trying to mount as a slave on my new machine.

Windows cannot see the drive and when i look in disk managment, it says that it is a 'dynamic foreign drive' or simililar.

Have tried looking in DOS, used recovery discs etc and came up with nothing...

what can i do to mount the drive and access the data?

Thankyou

 

[garebo]

What make is the hard drive?
Go to the mfg website, download their diagnostic disk and put it on a floppy. Use win 98 boot disk to get to dos and then use the diagnostic disk to "write zeroes" to the hard drive.
This usually takes care of just about any kind of hard drive problems.
You can even fdisk and format the drive from dos and when you get to windows you can format it again as NTFS.



Good advice + great people = tek-tips

 

[tuco7]

If you are joining it on the same Primary IDE with the master Hard Drive make sure that the jumper on the hard drive is set to SLAVE

 

[essaress1]

I am experiencing the exact same problem with a really old 1.2 gig maxtor drive in my Mom's oldhomesys(she only uses it for email ) and as such she does not want to replace it ,atleast until she can get the data she wants to save off of it....
I have it living in a"newer"sys currently that the BIOS sees and Identifies..But Windows 98se does not see it...

 

[micker377]

Sometimes "autodetect" won't work on these older drives. In BIOS, you will have to manually input the specs listed on the top of the hard drive. If the specs are missing, go to the manufacturers web site. They will be listed there.