New motherboard will not recognize old secondary drive on laptop
From: JDS (jds_at_personainternet.com)
Date: 03/23/04
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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 15:30:23 GMT
I have a Dell Latitude C810 Laptop running Windows XP.
Dell service replaced the primary hard drive, motherboard, and memory
recently.
After re-installing Windows XP on the new primary hard drive the system
will not recognize my secondary removable hard drive.
Disk 0 (primary) is fine but my Disk 1 secondary drive is listed as a
foreign (dynamic) drive.
This same secondary drive worked fine on this laptop prior to the
motherboard change. The secondary drive is formatted FAT32.
The secondary drive was never setup as a dynamic drive to my knowledge.
Windows XP will not Import Foreign Disks on a LAPTOP. MS KnowledgeBase says
a desktop will import a dynamic foreigh drive using Disk Management.
While it appears I can convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk this also
appears to delete all data on the disk.
How can I access my secondary disk without loosing all the data on the
Secondary drive?
Can I somehow convince Windows XP that the laptoip is a desktop so I can
import the forieng drive ?
Thanks in advance for your feedback.
John
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