Re: Recovering data from a large SATA after XP reinstall

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I cured my problem by reinstalling chipset drivers, presumably something
wasnt quite right with origonal installation.

"DL" <dl@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> PS I'm not trying to boot/instal win on this sata drive
>
> "*** Cardy" <ubetrap@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> >
> > "Kirk Dudley" <kdudley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> > > 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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