Re: XP cant see 2nd drive

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Yes the drive may well be toast.
I'm not sure of which pin the jumper must be placed on for each but by
trial and error the configuration i have now is the only one that
'works' and the master and slave are seen as such in the Bios On Aug
16, 5:23 pm, "neil" <n...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi,
There is a possibility the drive was also damaged during the thunderstorm.
Have you checked the original drive doesn't need to be set as "master with
slave connected".?
You could try to connect the old drive as your master drive and it should
start in "safemode" although it probably won't start in normal mode, but it
should prove if the drive is still accessible.
When you checked in device manager did it show both drives.?
I have to ask again, when you set the master & slave links are they set as
master on the original drive and slave on the second drive.?
Neil"franko" <knarfi.s...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

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On Aug 16, 2:51 pm, "neil" <n...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
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.s...@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

Thanks Neil.
I did try to find it in Disk management but it is not seen there
either.
It is connected on the same ribbon cable - it is daisy chained.
The master/slave jumper pin settings must be ok because 1) when they
were in other positions the Bios couldnt see them as such and now it
does find both
.

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