Re: windows xp cannot detect hard drive

The A: drive letter is reserved for the floppy drive, even if you do not
have one (as is the letter B:\)
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging
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"Judy" <Judy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I only see the (C) Drive, how can I add the A drive?
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Judy


"Cari (MS-MVP)" wrote:

Does Disk Management detect the drive at all? (Right click on My
Computer,
select Manage, on the following screen, click on Disk Management)

Anything there? Can you assign drive letter(s)?
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Cari (MS-MVP)
Printing & Imaging
http://www.coribright.com/windows



<vasilis.qs@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I have an internal WD 200GB hard drive with 3 partitions (75gb ntfs,
75gb ntfs, 50gb fat32) and the desktop was working fine (win XP pro). I
plugged the hard drive in an external IDE to USB device and connected
it to a laptop (win XP pro). When I installed it back to my desktop,
windows cannot detect the hard drive anymore, however BIOS can detect
it. Also, I plugged it back to the USB but it cannot be detected now as
an external USB hard drive either. I used the windows CD in order to
repair it but the hard drive still cannot be detected.

I am using this HD only for backup, so there is not windows installed
there (it is the second hard drive, slave). I tried to install it as a
master at the second IDE cable but I still have the same problem.

I have data on that drive (it is for backup) and I do not want to
format the drive (if windows will be able to detect it). There are
files that I need to get off that drive and if anyone out there can
give me any help, I would be very happy.






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