200gb hard drive not recognised in 'my computer'

[Guest]

I pulled my 200gb SATA drive from my crashed workstation (XP Pro) and install
in another desktop (XP Home). The BIOS properly identifies the drive, yet
Windows does not display it. I can locate the drive in Device Manager, but
the capacity 0.

In another thread (200gb hard drive not recognised in 'my comp', 3/14/2005),
I found suggestions that led me to Disk Management. The drive is present,
but listed as "foreign". I have considerable precious data on this drive, so
I am apprehensive about Converting to Basic Disk.

How to correct this condition/situation? Any suggestions appreciated!

Thanks,
-Sean-

 

[Ron Sommer]

You may need to take ownership of the drive.
http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Taking_ownership

 

[Anna]

You may need to take ownership of the drive.
http://rickrogers.org/fixes.htm#Taking_ownership

Sean:
The problem is not a matter of taking ownership of the drive. It's a bit
more complicated than that. The basic problem is that the drive was
apparently setup originally as a Dynamic disk. (Unfortunately, XP's Disk
Management utility makes it all too easy for a disk to be designated as
such, rather than Basic. Very, very few users need to create a Dynamic disk,
but many, many users inadvertently select that option when they use the DM
utility to partition/format their drives). When the drive was subsequently
removed from the XP Pro system and installed in a XP Home system, it took on
the designation of "foreign".

In any event, see
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/pr...elp/4b6d9afa-0e0d-4afb-a42f-00c1154cb379.mspx
for detailed information as to how you can convert the disk and hopefully
salvage the data.
Anna

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Anna (and thanks for the effort, Ron);
Because I cannot mount the drive, of course I cannot select any folder to
take ownership of. <wry grin> The article you recommended was exactly what I
needed - though I did not wish to see, "Converting a dynamic disk to a basic
disk destroys all data on the disk"!

That's all the incentive I need to convert the OS to XP Pro.

Regards,
-Sean-

 

[Mike Fields]

You might also consider while you are at it, purchasing
a good backup program, so you would have been able
to go to the backup image and get your, as you put it,
"considerable precious data " back easily. If the drive
had totally toasted, your options are far more limited.

mikey

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem, but am moving the array from XP Pro TO XP Pro. Per
the link you provided, importing the foreign disk should be my fix, but when
I try that, I get an error message.

Any thoughts? I have lots of data on the array. Help will be appreciated.
(Lord only knows when I'll get the obvious message about backups.)

 

[Guest]

I have the same problem, only I'm moving my array from xp pro to xp pro.
Your link suggested that importing the foreign disk would be my fix, but
instead I got an error message.

Any ideas would be appreciated.