Repost...someone has to be good enough to figure this out

Basics:

80Gb Sys drive, fresh XP Pro re-install
200Gb WD Caviar drive
Promise Technology Ultra T2 controller card

PROBLEM: Disk Management sees extra drive, does not give volume label
(which was there before reinstalling), file system verification (just
blank), or accurate free space (capacity = free space...data
definitely seen by another computer, so still there).

SOLUTIONS ATTEMPTED:

1) Card recognizes another one of my drives (200Gb), so doubt it is
the card
2) Attempted to update driver from Promise for the SCSI & RAID
Controller category under which Device Manager is listing it). Would
not allow me to do so.
3) Don't think it's a BIOS issue because the drive is definitely seen
at startup and any updated to the BIOS would have been there before
the Windows reinstall

Have another post here which was answered with suggestion to
"Reinitialize" the drive under disk management, but that option is not
there (at least not in that name). Am hopeful "reinitialize" does not
mean reformat, as the data is definitely there and working, at least
on one machine. So seems to be something with my setup.

Thanks tons for any help.

Hi,

If you have the drivers CD for the promise card, save it to a floppy disk.
If the drivers is in a floppy, skip the above step.
You may also go to Promise website to download the latest XP drivers for your card and save it to a floppy.

Boot from the XP CD to perform a repair installation of XP.
During the process, when prompted to install any raid/scsi drivers by pressing the F6 Key, do so.
Insert the floppy when prompted. If may take several minutes to install the drivers. Be patient and don't touch any keys until you are prompted to do so.

Hope it helps.

Peter


----- boris wrote: -----

Repost...someone has to be good enough to figure this out

Basics:

80Gb Sys drive, fresh XP Pro re-install
200Gb WD Caviar drive
Promise Technology Ultra T2 controller card

PROBLEM: Disk Management sees extra drive, does not give volume label
(which was there before reinstalling), file system verification (just
blank), or accurate free space (capacity = free space...data
definitely seen by another computer, so still there).

SOLUTIONS ATTEMPTED:

1) Card recognizes another one of my drives (200Gb), so doubt it is
the card
2) Attempted to update driver from Promise for the SCSI & RAID
Controller category under which Device Manager is listing it). Would
not allow me to do so.
3) Don't think it's a BIOS issue because the drive is definitely seen
at startup and any updated to the BIOS would have been there before
the Windows reinstall

Have another post here which was answered with suggestion to
"Reinitialize" the drive under disk management, but that option is not
there (at least not in that name). Am hopeful "reinitialize" does not
mean reformat, as the data is definitely there and working, at least
on one machine. So seems to be something with my setup.

Thanks tons for any help.

Peter, glad to see someone at least has ideas. I am pretty sure I
tried this in my last install and it didn't do the trick (I did a new
install as opposed to repair). I am assuming that if I try the repair
option, there is not a way to avoid having Windows reinstall
completely. I have, at this point, installed a bunch of my old
programs again and would hate to have to start all over. Any way you
can think of to avoid having to reinstall the entire OS?

"Peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message news:<523355D1-CFE6-430F-A998-(E-Mail Removed)>...
> Hi,
>
> If you have the drivers CD for the promise card, save it to a floppy disk.
> If the drivers is in a floppy, skip the above step.
> You may also go to Promise website to download the latest XP drivers for your card and save it to a floppy.
>
> Boot from the XP CD to perform a repair installation of XP.
> During the process, when prompted to install any raid/scsi drivers by pressing the F6 Key, do so.
> Insert the floppy when prompted. If may take several minutes to install the drivers. Be patient and don't touch any keys until you are prompted to do so.
>
> Hope it helps.
>
> Peter
>
>
> ----- boris wrote: -----
>
> Repost...someone has to be good enough to figure this out
>
> Basics:
>
> 80Gb Sys drive, fresh XP Pro re-install
> 200Gb WD Caviar drive
> Promise Technology Ultra T2 controller card
>
> PROBLEM: Disk Management sees extra drive, does not give volume label
> (which was there before reinstalling), file system verification (just
> blank), or accurate free space (capacity = free space...data
> definitely seen by another computer, so still there).
>
> SOLUTIONS ATTEMPTED:
>
> 1) Card recognizes another one of my drives (200Gb), so doubt it is
> the card
> 2) Attempted to update driver from Promise for the SCSI & RAID
> Controller category under which Device Manager is listing it). Would
> not allow me to do so.
> 3) Don't think it's a BIOS issue because the drive is definitely seen
> at startup and any updated to the BIOS would have been there before
> the Windows reinstall
>
> Have another post here which was answered with suggestion to
> "Reinitialize" the drive under disk management, but that option is not
> there (at least not in that name). Am hopeful "reinitialize" does not
> mean reformat, as the data is definitely there and working, at least
> on one machine. So seems to be something with my setup.
>
> Thanks tons for any help.