Re: XP cant see 2nd drive

Hi,
Assuming you have set the master/slave links in the right positions then you
need to look at the drive using "disk managements". Right click "my
computer" and select "manage", In the left hand pane select disk management
and see if the old drive is seen there. If it is then you can "explore" from
there or allocate a drive letter.
If not then check the master/slave link again. What ribbon are you
connecting to, IDE0 or IDE1in other words the hard drive ribbon or the
CD/DVD ribbon. You would normally set the second drive as slave.

Neil
"franko" <knarfi.sorg@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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My daughters old Dell 8200 desktop quit - we dont know what happened
but we suspect she left it on during a thunderstorm and perhaps there
was a tremendous jolt that the surge protector couldn't handle - not
sure though. The original symptom was 'it's dead' - no fan, no hum, no
beep, no led, no boot to bios, nothing at all...dead.

My suspicion was the psuu so i connected a known good one which
provided power to the mb (fan worked but still no beeps, no booting,
no anything). So then I reseated all the cards and all the memory
sticks. Nothing. I exchanged the display card. Nothing.Removed the
heatsink and reseated the cpu . Nothing.

We accepted that the computer is probabbly toast but wanted to try and
recover some data

Then I took the hard drive (an old 40gb ATA) out and installed it in
another computer as a second (slave) drive. It was tough to get the
machine to boot but I moved the master/slave jumpers around a little
on both hd 's and eventually got past the bios etc to Windows.

* Problem
is that this 2nd hard drive isnt seen by windows XP although it IS
seen in the Bios.

I've tried via My Computer , Windows Explorer , device manager). I
guess usually one has to format it to be seen
but of course I cant do that if 1.) i want the data and 2) windows
doesnt find it

Is there a solution?
Alternatively I thought of maybe buying an enclosure and trying to
read it via a USB connection as an external.

Thanks for any help
F


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