After an XP crash. I could no longer boot. When in the
recovery console I could see files and directories on the
drive. Since I need many of the files on the drive, I
bought another drive installed XP on it and moved the old
drive to a slave drive. Although Device Manager and Disk
Manager see the drive, Explorer does not see it and Disk
Manager only allows the deleting the partition but does
not allow me to change the drive designation. By the way,
there is no drive designation of the 2nd drive. DM
correctly detects NTFS on it. The boot drive is also NTFS.

Any ideas on how to access the data on my second drive?

Thanks,

Chckles

Why don't you just reinstall the old drive and try a Repair Install
since you have the WinXP CD. Leave the second drive
disconnected when trying this.
http://www.logdev.com/LogDev/KBase/K...B030225-01.htm
"chckles" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:090301c3c57f$39817610$(E-Mail Removed)...
> After an XP crash. I could no longer boot. When in the
> recovery console I could see files and directories on the
> drive. Since I need many of the files on the drive, I
> bought another drive installed XP on it and moved the old
> drive to a slave drive. Although Device Manager and Disk
> Manager see the drive, Explorer does not see it and Disk
> Manager only allows the deleting the partition but does
> not allow me to change the drive designation. By the way,
> there is no drive designation of the 2nd drive. DM
> correctly detects NTFS on it. The boot drive is also NTFS.
>
> Any ideas on how to access the data on my second drive?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chckles

Thanks for the reply.

What exactly do you meam by repair install? The Recovery
Console?

Thanks, again.

Chckles

>-----Original Message-----
> Why don't you just reinstall the old drive and try
a Repair Install
>since you have the WinXP CD. Leave the second drive
> disconnected when trying this.
> http://www.logdev.com/LogDev/KBase/KBase-
LogDev/KB030225-01.htm
>"chckles" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
message
>news:090301c3c57f$39817610$(E-Mail Removed)...
>> After an XP crash. I could no longer boot. When in the
>> recovery console I could see files and directories on
the
>> drive. Since I need many of the files on the drive, I
>> bought another drive installed XP on it and moved the
old
>> drive to a slave drive. Although Device Manager and
Disk
>> Manager see the drive, Explorer does not see it and
Disk
>> Manager only allows the deleting the partition but does
>> not allow me to change the drive designation. By the
way,
>> there is no drive designation of the 2nd drive. DM
>> correctly detects NTFS on it. The boot drive is also
NTFS.
>>
>> Any ideas on how to access the data on my second drive?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Chckles
>
>
>.
>

Repair install in performing an XP install ontop of the installed XP.

Tepair Console is something else.

Y.

"chckles" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:015401c3c5a6$4427d510$(E-Mail Removed)...
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> What exactly do you meam by repair install? The Recovery
> Console?
>
> Thanks, again.
>
> Chckles
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> > Why don't you just reinstall the old drive and try
> a Repair Install
> >since you have the WinXP CD. Leave the second drive
> > disconnected when trying this.
> > http://www.logdev.com/LogDev/KBase/KBase-
> LogDev/KB030225-01.htm
> >"chckles" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
> message
> >news:090301c3c57f$39817610$(E-Mail Removed)...
> >> After an XP crash. I could no longer boot. When in the
> >> recovery console I could see files and directories on
> the
> >> drive. Since I need many of the files on the drive, I
> >> bought another drive installed XP on it and moved the
> old
> >> drive to a slave drive. Although Device Manager and
> Disk
> >> Manager see the drive, Explorer does not see it and
> Disk
> >> Manager only allows the deleting the partition but does
> >> not allow me to change the drive designation. By the
> way,
> >> there is no drive designation of the 2nd drive. DM
> >> correctly detects NTFS on it. The boot drive is also
> NTFS.
> >>
> >> Any ideas on how to access the data on my second drive?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Chckles
> >
> >
> >.
> >

I sent you a link to How to perform a Repair Install.
"chckles" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:090301c3c57f$39817610$(E-Mail Removed)...
> After an XP crash. I could no longer boot. When in the
> recovery console I could see files and directories on the
> drive. Since I need many of the files on the drive, I
> bought another drive installed XP on it and moved the old
> drive to a slave drive. Although Device Manager and Disk
> Manager see the drive, Explorer does not see it and Disk
> Manager only allows the deleting the partition but does
> not allow me to change the drive designation. By the way,
> there is no drive designation of the 2nd drive. DM
> correctly detects NTFS on it. The boot drive is also NTFS.
>
> Any ideas on how to access the data on my second drive?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Chckles