Hi guys, im sure someone can answer this quickly.
Dad bought a new computer. A HP Pavillion P4. I installed his old HDD from his old HP Pavillion (Athlon) and jumpered it as slave, also jumpered his PC's new drive as Master. They are both on the same IDE channel. I also installed his old CD/RW drive in as a slave off his new DVD R/W drive (Master).
Primary on IDE 1 - Samsung 120GB HDD
Secondary on IDE 1 - Seagate 30GB HDD
Primary on IDE 2 - HP DVD/RW
Secondary on IDE 2 - TEAC CD/RW
Now in the BIOS I can see all the drives and all are being detected correctly. And I can hear both HDD's spin up.
He is running Windows XP Home (SP1). This version is that which was pre-installed and shipped with the computer.
Problem is that I cannot see the second HDD within Windows explorer. Under Device manager I see it as being there. And within computer administration - Disk Managment I see the drive as being there but i has a Yellow asterix on it. If I right click on it I get the option to convert the disk to Basic (but in doing so I lose all the data). The second CD/RW drive that I installed works fine.
I have been to the Seagate web site and downloaded the disk managment tools but all they want to do it repartition and format the drive. I just cant get to the data.
The drive which I am trying to access was a bootable drive and was loaded with Windows XP professional.
Under disk managment the following is listed
Disk 0
Basic
111.0 GB
OnLine
Disk 1
Dynamic
Foreign (yellow triangle with '!' in it)
Disk 0 has 2 partitions, they are C: 106.63GB (NTFS) and D:5.17GB (FAT32)
Can anyone tell me why I cannot view the data on the slave HDD? I am sure it has something to do with the BASIC and DYNAMIC disk configuration, but I do not understand the cause exactly and I do not know how to resolve this.
Any help would be much appreciated, and stop me from going insane!!
Dad bought a new computer. A HP Pavillion P4. I installed his old HDD from his old HP Pavillion (Athlon) and jumpered it as slave, also jumpered his PC's new drive as Master. They are both on the same IDE channel. I also installed his old CD/RW drive in as a slave off his new DVD R/W drive (Master).
Primary on IDE 1 - Samsung 120GB HDD
Secondary on IDE 1 - Seagate 30GB HDD
Primary on IDE 2 - HP DVD/RW
Secondary on IDE 2 - TEAC CD/RW
Now in the BIOS I can see all the drives and all are being detected correctly. And I can hear both HDD's spin up.
He is running Windows XP Home (SP1). This version is that which was pre-installed and shipped with the computer.
Problem is that I cannot see the second HDD within Windows explorer. Under Device manager I see it as being there. And within computer administration - Disk Managment I see the drive as being there but i has a Yellow asterix on it. If I right click on it I get the option to convert the disk to Basic (but in doing so I lose all the data). The second CD/RW drive that I installed works fine.
I have been to the Seagate web site and downloaded the disk managment tools but all they want to do it repartition and format the drive. I just cant get to the data.
The drive which I am trying to access was a bootable drive and was loaded with Windows XP professional.
Under disk managment the following is listed
Disk 0
Basic
111.0 GB
OnLine
Disk 1
Dynamic
Foreign (yellow triangle with '!' in it)
Disk 0 has 2 partitions, they are C: 106.63GB (NTFS) and D:5.17GB (FAT32)
Can anyone tell me why I cannot view the data on the slave HDD? I am sure it has something to do with the BASIC and DYNAMIC disk configuration, but I do not understand the cause exactly and I do not know how to resolve this.
Any help would be much appreciated, and stop me from going insane!!