Q: formatted and reinstalled XP SP2 on my primary 120 GB hard drive. When I was setting up, I noticed that my 160 GB hard drive, the secondary appears as unformatted space. : Confused: I continued and reformat my 120 GB drive, but has no contact with the 160 GB drive. Now my 160 GB drive does not appear in XP.
It s a Maxtor drive, so I downloaded MaxBlast for Windows. He said large disk support was not completely turned, so did that and restarted. Still not showing up. : Confused: I did not go too far in the MaxBlast software because I do not want to reformat the disk drive.
My 300 GB in an external USB enclosure surfaces, and it has shown since the first time I booted the system after reformatting.
Any suggestions for how to drive without reformatting it to show? I do not want to lose a bit. Ive tried it in the computer of my wife, it gave me an error about not the OS. I think it can try to start my 160 GB drive instead of its drive . (Her two drives have SATA drives, so this was the only one PATA disk . I do not know if that influence which drive it tries to boot from) 0.
ANYWAY, I appreciate all the help with getting my system to recognize this drive without formatting.
Re:Yea, I had something similar happen to me a few months back. The drive just stopped showing up in windows. I used a program called Get Data Back to pull the info off the drive, reformated it and it works fine.
I'm not keeping anything valuable on that drive any more to be safe.
Re:Would you like to share that piece of information with us?
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
go into your disk management console under computer management. You will see the disk in there with an "!". Right click and select "import disk".
Unfortunately I don't get that. 
This is what I see:
diskmanagement.gif ()
I don't understand how this could have happened without you deleting the partitions from the drive! Keep bumping this until someone explains what could have caused this.
Someone on Gottadeal recommended a program that recovers lost partitions, and it appears to be working! 
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Originally posted by: guy
go into your disk management console under computer management. You will see the disk in there with an "!". Right click and select "import disk".
Unfortunately I don't get that. This is what I see:
diskmanagement.gif ()
I don't understand how this could have happened without you deleting the partitions from the drive! Keep bumping this until someone explains what could have caused this.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
go into your disk management console under computer management. You will see the disk in there with an "!". Right click and select "import disk".
Unfortunately I don't get that. This is what I see:
diskmanagement.gif ()
Re:go into your disk management console under computer management. You will see the disk in there with an "!". Right click and select "import disk".
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Right click "My computer" and select "Manage". Click on "Disk Management".
What do you see on the right pane?
Did you ever change security permissions on the content of your 160G drive before the reformat?
I put the disk into my work computer and did what you said, it shows up as all unallocated space.
Re:Originally posted by: guy
You need to import the disk back into XP.
How do I go about doing this?
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Right click "My computer" and select "Manage". Click on "Disk Management".
What do you see on the right pane?
Did you ever change security permissions on the content of your 160G drive before the reformat?
I'll do this when I get home from work. I never changed any sercurity permissions.
Re:You need to import the disk back into XP.
Re:Right click "My computer" and select "Manage". Click on "Disk Management".
What do you see on the right pane?
Did you ever change security permissions on the content of your 160G drive before the reformat?
Re:Originally posted by: guy
Did the hard drive show up in the bios?
Yeah. It shows up in Device Manager in Windows too. It just doesn't mount in Windows because it thinks it's unformatted.
Re:Did the hard drive show up in the bios?
Re:Originally posted by: guy
stick it into the external enclosure and see what it says.
Yeah, I also tried it in the external enclosure (on my wife's computer), didn't work.
Re:stick it into the external enclosure and see what it says.
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