slave drive inaccessible after XP reinstall

I reformatted/reinstalled XP Pro on my master disk (60 GB) with my 160 GB
slave on same cable. Install OK, works. Slave now appears as primary
partition and extended partition with preexistiing logical drive letters
there but I cant access the data or scan disk etc. I can only access the so
called primary partition on slave.

Is this b/c XP pre SP1 would not recognize large drive so that when XP
reinstalled (ie pre SP-1 XP until updated) it failed to address entire 160
GB?

What are options? Repartition w Part MAgic? at this point data recovery is
critical. Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Terence, did you reinstall SP1? Are they partitioned in NTFS and your
reformat was in Fat32?
"Terence Chapman" <tnc3p@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:vp371tp1ihsb91@corp.supernews.com...
> I reformatted/reinstalled XP Pro on my master disk (60 GB) with my 160 GB
> slave on same cable. Install OK, works. Slave now appears as primary
> partition and extended partition with preexistiing logical drive letters
> there but I cant access the data or scan disk etc. I can only access the
so
> called primary partition on slave.
>
> Is this b/c XP pre SP1 would not recognize large drive so that when XP
> reinstalled (ie pre SP-1 XP until updated) it failed to address entire 160
> GB?
>
> What are options? Repartition w Part MAgic? at this point data recovery is
> critical. Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.
>
>

XP SP1 was added, but maybe the damage was done as when XP comes back on
line after reinstall, it "corrupted" the slave drive configuration.

both drives are NTFS and report as such

"Rich Barry" <rbarry@NOTsocal.rr.com> wrote in message
news:ePW8VPblDHA.1656@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Terence, did you reinstall SP1? Are they partitioned in NTFS and your
> reformat was in Fat32?
> "Terence Chapman" <tnc3p@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:vp371tp1ihsb91@corp.supernews.com...
> > I reformatted/reinstalled XP Pro on my master disk (60 GB) with my 160
GB
> > slave on same cable. Install OK, works. Slave now appears as primary
> > partition and extended partition with preexistiing logical drive letters
> > there but I cant access the data or scan disk etc. I can only access the
> so
> > called primary partition on slave.
> >
> > Is this b/c XP pre SP1 would not recognize large drive so that when XP
> > reinstalled (ie pre SP-1 XP until updated) it failed to address entire
160
> > GB?
> >
> > What are options? Repartition w Part MAgic? at this point data recovery
is
> > critical. Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.
> >
> >
>
>