Hello everyone,

I have just had a problem with my xp install and i chose
to do a repair operation on it using my original disc.

Now, xp will not see my 160 gig data drive when booted
and there is so much valuable info on there....i simply
cannot emphasize how much sentimental info is there.

The drive is not faulty at all.

Help.

To see a drive larger than 137Gb three things are required: the BIOS must
see it, WinXP SP1 must be installed, 48-bit LBA must be turned on.

When you did the repair install you must have reverted to XP with no SP1 and
48-bit LBA is not included.

"andrew hopper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0eb501c47b27$e1604420$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Hello everyone,
>
> I have just had a problem with my xp install and i chose
> to do a repair operation on it using my original disc.
>
> Now, xp will not see my 160 gig data drive when booted
> and there is so much valuable info on there....i simply
> cannot emphasize how much sentimental info is there.
>
> The drive is not faulty at all.
>
> Help.

update your bios if you can then reboot the machine.you
will have to list the name of the motherboard and model #
>-----Original Message-----
>Hello everyone,
>
>I have just had a problem with my xp install and i chose
>to do a repair operation on it using my original disc.
>
>Now, xp will not see my 160 gig data drive when booted
>and there is so much valuable info on there....i simply
>cannot emphasize how much sentimental info is there.
>
>The drive is not faulty at all.
>
>Help.
>.
>

Exactly, the repair will remove SP1. You need to reinstall SP1 and all
of your data will show back up. It is still there and you don't need to
do anything with the BIOS. If you were seeing full capacity before,
everything is set up correctly.

----
Nathan McNulty

Jerry wrote:
> To see a drive larger than 137Gb three things are required: the BIOS must
> see it, WinXP SP1 must be installed, 48-bit LBA must be turned on.
>
> When you did the repair install you must have reverted to XP with no SP1 and
> 48-bit LBA is not included.
>
> "andrew hopper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:0eb501c47b27$e1604420$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>Hello everyone,
>>
>>I have just had a problem with my xp install and i chose
>>to do a repair operation on it using my original disc.
>>
>>Now, xp will not see my 160 gig data drive when booted
>>and there is so much valuable info on there....i simply
>>cannot emphasize how much sentimental info is there.
>>
>>The drive is not faulty at all.
>>
>>Help.
>
>
>

hi guys

thanks for the quick reply cos i am breaking my heart
here.

the machine has sp1 on it, i put it on after xp...i
thought the same....no luck.

in computer management i see 153 odd gig unallocated
which is about right...but unallocated ? ? ? ?



>-----Original Message-----
>To see a drive larger than 137Gb three things are
required: the BIOS must
>see it, WinXP SP1 must be installed, 48-bit LBA must be
turned on.
>
>When you did the repair install you must have reverted
to XP with no SP1 and
>48-bit LBA is not included.
>
>"andrew hopper" <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote in message
>news:0eb501c47b27$e1604420$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I have just had a problem with my xp install and i
chose
>> to do a repair operation on it using my original disc.
>>
>> Now, xp will not see my 160 gig data drive when booted
>> and there is so much valuable info on there....i simply
>> cannot emphasize how much sentimental info is there.
>>
>> The drive is not faulty at all.
>>
>> Help.
>
>
>.
>

But did you activate 48-bit LBA?

"andrew hopper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:0f1a01c47b2c$49b34780$(E-Mail Removed)...
> hi guys
>
> thanks for the quick reply cos i am breaking my heart
> here.
>
> the machine has sp1 on it, i put it on after xp...i
> thought the same....no luck.
>
> in computer management i see 153 odd gig unallocated
> which is about right...but unallocated ? ? ? ?
>
>
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >To see a drive larger than 137Gb three things are
> required: the BIOS must
> >see it, WinXP SP1 must be installed, 48-bit LBA must be
> turned on.
> >
> >When you did the repair install you must have reverted
> to XP with no SP1 and
> >48-bit LBA is not included.
> >
> >"andrew hopper" <(E-Mail Removed)>
> wrote in message
> >news:0eb501c47b27$e1604420$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> Hello everyone,
> >>
> >> I have just had a problem with my xp install and i
> chose
> >> to do a repair operation on it using my original disc.
> >>
> >> Now, xp will not see my 160 gig data drive when booted
> >> and there is so much valuable info on there....i simply
> >> cannot emphasize how much sentimental info is there.
> >>
> >> The drive is not faulty at all.
> >>
> >> Help.
> >
> >
> >.
> >

SP1 enables 48bit LBA. You don't have to activate it.

----
Nathan McNulty


Jerry wrote:
> But did you activate 48-bit LBA?
>
> "andrew hopper" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:0f1a01c47b2c$49b34780$(E-Mail Removed)...
>
>>hi guys
>>
>>thanks for the quick reply cos i am breaking my heart
>>here.
>>
>>the machine has sp1 on it, i put it on after xp...i
>>thought the same....no luck.
>>
>>in computer management i see 153 odd gig unallocated
>>which is about right...but unallocated ? ? ? ?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>To see a drive larger than 137Gb three things are
>>
>>required: the BIOS must
>>
>>>see it, WinXP SP1 must be installed, 48-bit LBA must be
>>
>>turned on.
>>
>>>When you did the repair install you must have reverted
>>
>>to XP with no SP1 and
>>
>>>48-bit LBA is not included.
>>>
>>>"andrew hopper" <(E-Mail Removed)>
>>
>>wrote in message
>>
>>>news:0eb501c47b27$e1604420$(E-Mail Removed)...
>>>
>>>>Hello everyone,
>>>>
>>>>I have just had a problem with my xp install and i
>>
>>chose
>>
>>>>to do a repair operation on it using my original disc.
>>>>
>>>>Now, xp will not see my 160 gig data drive when booted
>>>>and there is so much valuable info on there....i simply
>>>>cannot emphasize how much sentimental info is there.
>>>>
>>>>The drive is not faulty at all.
>>>>
>>>>Help.
>>>
>>>
>>>.
>>>
>
>
>

Hi Andrew:
I just replied to another post, and thought you might be having the same
problem. You called the 160 gig HDD your 'data' drive. Is it not your boot
drive? If it isn't, your boot drive may have been formatted as one system
(NTFS or FAT32) and your data drive is still the other. Windows will only
'see' HDDs of the same system. What you need to do is convert one or the
other drive so that they are the same (either both FAT32 or both NTFS) I
believe there is a 'convert' option on the XP disk that will do this without
destroying data. Since it can't 'see' the 160 g disk, you'll probably have
to convert the boot drive so that you can see them again.

If the 160 IS your boot drive, then I'm lost!

Steve

"andrew hopper" wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
> I have just had a problem with my xp install and i chose
> to do a repair operation on it using my original disc.
>
> Now, xp will not see my 160 gig data drive when booted
> and there is so much valuable info on there....i simply
> cannot emphasize how much sentimental info is there.
>
> The drive is not faulty at all.
>
> Help.
>