Re: Recovering data from a large SATA after XP reinstall


"Kirk Dudley" <kdudley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:dpscje01jah@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Here's my problem:
> I had prety much managed to kill XP, and needed to wipe and reinstall. I
got
> a 400GB WD SATA drive, plugged it in with no problem, and backed up all of
> my data to it.
> I then unplugged it during the reinstall of XP to keep it out of harms
way,
> and then plugged it in once XP was up and running. However, This was the
> original release of XP, and I failed to get all of the service packs on
> before plugging the disk back in, so it only showed 128GB of the 369GB
that
> should be there. And it claims the drive isn't formatted.
>
> I shut down, unplugged the disk again, ran all of the updates, (SP2,
etc.),
> and tried again. Still no data, and still only 128GB showing, and windows
> still wants to format the drive.
>

Hopefully you have installed the motherboard SATA driver?


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