Re: Help! Slave Hard Drive shown as Foreign and won't display
- From: "Kerry Brown" <kerry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx*a*m>
- Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2006 08:03:02 -0700
You're right. If the drive was changed to dynamic with XP Pro you won't be
able to use the drive with XP Home. It won't work as a USB drive either. You
have to hook the drive up to a computer running XP Pro, Windows server, or a
Vista version that works with dynamic drives. You'll have to import the
foreign drive in the disk management console then copy the data off of it.
Once you've got the data off put it back in the XP Home computer where you
can repartition and format it. You can't convert from dynamic to basic
without losing the data. There are third party programs that claim to do
this but you need to backup anyway in case something goes wrong. Once you
have a backup it's just as easy to reparation and format as convert the
drive.
--
Kerry
MS-MVP Windows - Shell/User
http://www.vistahelp.ca
Andrew wrote:
Thanks for the quick replies.
Ghalleck, the hard drive with the 60 GB of data was set as a slave
on the primary IDE controller. The XP Pro was installed in a 80gb
Master HD. All jumper were set correctly because they were working
perfectly in XP Pro. When I bought the Seagate 200gb HD, it was
installed and partitioned under the XP Pro. I wanted to install back
my authentic copy of XP Home. I booted the computer using my DELL XP
Home Reinstallation CD (came w/ Dell Desktop when I purchased the
computer), removed the partition in the master (80gb one) HD,
repartitioned it, then installed the XP Home into the master. I
never touch anything with the 200 gb HD (Slave). After i upgraded
the new XP Home with SP1 and SP 2, the slave showed up in BIOS as 200
gb, it showed up in Device Manager, but not in My Computer, or Window
Explorer. I went into Drive Management and saw the master hard drive
as drive 0 (healthy NTFS), then drive 1 (slave) which it said
"Foreign" with no drive letter assigned to it. Checked the
properties, "The device is working properly." I tried right click on
this drive, the only option the computer gave i think was like
"Convert to Basic" or something like that. But this way, i will lose
all the data i had on it.
I am not sure if I had this slave partitioned as Dynamic volumn under
XP Pro before. If I did, then XP Home will not be able to recognize
this according to MSFT website. Then it leaves me w/ another option.
I can pull this slave out, put it in my other computer that has XP
Pro running, copy all my data to master HD in this XP Pro computer,
then convert this one to "basic" (if data will not be lost) or just
repartition it in the XP Home computer.
"GHalleck" wrote:
Andrew wrote:
Rich, currently i have a DVD Rom and a DVD Burner in the secondary
IDE. so you suggesting me to remove one of them and put it on the
hard drive, then set the HD as master?
Where was this hard drive with the 60 GB of data before? Was
it a slave on the primary IDE controller, where the XP Home is
now the Master? Make sure that these 2 drives are jumpered
properly. Next, take "ownership" of the drive with the data.
.
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