Cannot access data on a slave drive after reinstalling Windows XP

Hello everyone! I need your help please!!!

I came up with this great idea to put my personal/family
stuff (pics, video, doc, etc, etc) onto a separate hard
drive on my computer at home.

So, here is what I did.....

I bought a 120 GB HD and made it the Master drive.
I made my original 40 GB HD the Slave drive.
I installed XP on the 120 GB HD.

I didn't partition any of the drives and physically
double checked the configuation of the drives (Master vs.
Slave), but I now have a C, D and E drive. I checked the
properties of the drives and found that the C drive is
the 120GB, The D drive is the 40GB, but the E drive
shows, File type is "RAW", shows completely "full", but 0
bytes. Now for the best part... I can't access any of my
files on the D drive and when I click on the E drive, it
tells me that it hasn't been formatted and wants
to know if I want to do that now. I don't want to lose
all of that data, so I didn't format it.

Have you heard of anything like this? Where did I go
wrong and how can I get that data back?

Thank you for your time,
Rich

>-----Original Message-----
>Hello everyone! I need your help please!!!
>
>I came up with this great idea to put my personal/family
>stuff (pics, video, doc, etc, etc) onto a separate hard
>drive on my computer at home.
>
>So, here is what I did.....
>
>I bought a 120 GB HD and made it the Master drive.
>I made my original 40 GB HD the Slave drive.
>I installed XP on the 120 GB HD.
>
>I didn't partition any of the drives and physically
>double checked the configuation of the drives (Master vs.
>Slave), but I now have a C, D and E drive. I checked the
>properties of the drives and found that the C drive is
>the 120GB, The D drive is the 40GB, but the E drive
>shows, File type is "RAW", shows completely "full", but 0
>bytes. Now for the best part... I can't access any of my
>files on the D drive and when I click on the E drive, it
>tells me that it hasn't been formatted and wants
>to know if I want to do that now. I don't want to lose
>all of that data, so I didn't format it.
>
>Have you heard of anything like this? Where did I go
>wrong and how can I get that data back?
>
>Thank you for your time,
>Rich
>.
>Rich Im still looking for a solution i just posted with
the similar issue and if i find anything I'll let you
know. my post is NOV 15 2003 3:11am if you find anything
please email me dochollywood@sbcglobal.net

Thanks
Butcher

Butcher wrote:
> *
> >-----Original Message-----
> >Hello everyone! I need your help please!!!
> >
> >I came up with this great idea to put my personal/family
> >stuff (pics, video, doc, etc, etc) onto a separate hard
> >drive on my computer at home.
> >
> >So, here is what I did.....
> >
> >I bought a 120 GB HD and made it the Master drive.
> >I made my original 40 GB HD the Slave drive.
> >I installed XP on the 120 GB HD.
> >
> >I didn't partition any of the drives and physically
> >double checked the configuation of the drives (Master vs.
> >Slave), but I now have a C, D and E drive. I checked the
> >properties of the drives and found that the C drive is
> >the 120GB, The D drive is the 40GB, but the E drive
> >shows, File type is "RAW", shows completely "full", but 0
> >bytes. Now for the best part... I can't access any of my
> >files on the D drive and when I click on the E drive, it
> >tells me that it hasn't been formatted and wants
> >to know if I want to do that now. I don't want to lose
> >all of that data, so I didn't format it.
> >
> >Have you heard of anything like this? Where did I go
> >wrong and how can I get that data back?
> >
> >Thank you for your time,
> >Rich
> >.
> >Rich Im still looking for a solution i just posted with
> the similar issue and if i find anything I'll let you
> know. my post is NOV 15 2003 3:11am if you find anything
> please email me dochollywood@sbcglobal.net
>
> Thanks
> Butcher *

Yes, I have heard of it. Simply try to substitute a known GOOD dat
cable as one or both sides of the cable has been affected. You'll b
amazed... je


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Jerryt
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