Hello,

I just installed Windows XP. I have a Western Digital
WD800JB 80 GB 7200 RPM harddrive setup as a slave.

The computer had Windows 2000, but yesterday evening I
installed Windows XP Home Edition. I have read many
discussions on this during the last 12 hours. If your
answer, is going to be "look it up in the FAQ, please
don't bother posting". I've have tried to find the
solution before posting here, but can't seem to find the
proper solution.

Now, I cannot see the slave drive from "My Computer".
When I go to disk management, I do see the drive listed
as Disk1,dynamic,foreign. When I right click, I have
three options: Convert to Basic, Properties, and Help. I
do not have the option "Import from Foreign".

Again, this driving was usuable at this time yesterday,
the only change, and a major one obviously, is having
installed Windows XP. I have tried to update the driver,
but I am told that the best drivers are on already.
Furthermore, if there are other drivers for this device
that work better with Windows XP, I haven't found them.

This morning, I took the drive out, compared the jumper
setting with the instructions on the Western Digital
software that I loaded last night (the jumper is
correct). I then hooked it up into a Windows 2000 machine
as a slave without any bios setup, or changed settings,
and I was able to see the drive once I ran the
option "Import from Foreign" from disk managment (or
something very similiar). The drive has 43% used, and
33% free. All data is still there.

Western Digital's solution is to contact Microsoft.

http://tinyurl.com/2ozqz

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Kent.

Have you tried the following procedure?

Right-click on MY COMPUTER and select MANAGE.
Click on DISK MANAGEMENT and in the lower right-hand
window (gray shaded area), right-click on your second drive
and select INITIALIZE DISK.

If that does not work:

Go to Start > Run and type: CMD , and hit enter.
In the Command Prompt window, type: DISKPART , hit enter.
Then type: RESCAN , hit enter.
Try initializing the disk again.

--
Carey Frisch
Microsoft MVP
Windows XP - Shell/User

Be Smart! Protect your PC!
http://www.microsoft.com/security/protect/

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"Kent" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message:
news:05e001c3dde8$2b6730c0$(E-Mail Removed)...

| Hello,
|
| I just installed Windows XP. I have a Western Digital
| WD800JB 80 GB 7200 RPM harddrive setup as a slave.
|
| The computer had Windows 2000, but yesterday evening I
| installed Windows XP Home Edition. I have read many
| discussions on this during the last 12 hours. If your
| answer, is going to be "look it up in the FAQ, please
| don't bother posting". I've have tried to find the
| solution before posting here, but can't seem to find the
| proper solution.
|
| Now, I cannot see the slave drive from "My Computer".
| When I go to disk management, I do see the drive listed
| as Disk1,dynamic,foreign. When I right click, I have
| three options: Convert to Basic, Properties, and Help. I
| do not have the option "Import from Foreign".
|
| Again, this driving was usuable at this time yesterday,
| the only change, and a major one obviously, is having
| installed Windows XP. I have tried to update the driver,
| but I am told that the best drivers are on already.
| Furthermore, if there are other drivers for this device
| that work better with Windows XP, I haven't found them.
|
| This morning, I took the drive out, compared the jumper
| setting with the instructions on the Western Digital
| software that I loaded last night (the jumper is
| correct). I then hooked it up into a Windows 2000 machine
| as a slave without any bios setup, or changed settings,
| and I was able to see the drive once I ran the
| option "Import from Foreign" from disk managment (or
| something very similiar). The drive has 43% used, and
| 33% free. All data is still there.
|
| Western Digital's solution is to contact Microsoft.
|
| http://tinyurl.com/2ozqz
|
| Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you, Kent.

I'm a little confused. What OS does the master hard drive have? I understand that the slave has Win 2000 Pro and you upgraded that to Win XP Home.

>-----Original Message-----
>I'm a little confused. What OS does the master hard
drive have? I understand that the slave has Win 2000 Pro
and you upgraded that to Win XP Home.
>.
>
The master has XP Home, before it had Windows 2000. THe
slave doesn't now, nor ever did, have an operating
system. It has been setup for a slave since the day I
purchased it. The master had Windows 2000, until I
reinstalled XP Home on it yesterday. Like I stated, I put
it on another machine this morning, as a slave, and could
see the data.

Thanks

Carey, I have tried the latter, before posting the
originial message, without success. The first I can't
do. As I mentioned, when I right click on the disk in
question in disk management, I only have three choices.
Convert to basic, properties, and help. I don't have
an "initialize disk" option.

Kent.

Sorry. I must have misread.