Drive Image and Partition Magic do not reconize Drive D

[DT]

Had to do a clean install of XP Home.

I have 2 IDE drives, C& D. D is a Maxtor 300 Gig.

Partition Magic 8 and Drive Image 7 will not show the D drive on the
"to do" screen, they will only show C

Any ideas would me most welcome.

Dave

 

[ByTor]

Had to do a clean install of XP Home.

I have 2 IDE drives, C& D. D is a Maxtor 300 Gig.

Partition Magic 8 and Drive Image 7 will not show the D drive on the
"to do" screen, they will only show C

Any ideas would me most welcome.

Dave

Does your BIOS see the 300gig drive?
Is this 300gig drive new, just put in?
Was it there before & disappeared after the install?

How are you running DI & PM....Boot disks or from windows?
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The Tobes of Hades, lit by flickering torchlight
The netherworld is gathered in the glare
Prince By-Tor takes the cavern to the north light
The sign of Eth is rising in the air.
By-Tor, knight of darkness,
Centurion of evil, devil's prince.

http://www.thekidfrombrooklyn.com/

 

[DT]

Does your BIOS see the 300gig drive?
Is this 300gig drive new, just put in?
Was it there before & disappeared after the install?

How are you running DI & PM....Boot disks or from windows?

BIOS sees it. It is shown in My Computer. It is being used for
programs and works well. It is there and is recognized by XP. It was
reformatted.

I run the programs from Windows just like I have many times.

Dave

 

[DT]

Had to do a clean install of XP Home.

I have 2 IDE drives, C& D. D is a Maxtor 300 Gig.

Partition Magic 8 and Drive Image 7 will not show the D drive on the
"to do" screen, they will only show C

Any ideas would me most welcome.

Found the solution. Was mucking around in Disk Mgt and found that XP
had not made D active. Made it active and now all is well.

 

[ByTor]

Found the solution. Was mucking around in Disk Mgt and found that XP
had not made D active. Made it active and now all is well.

Hmmmmm, that's interesting because my understanding is that there cannot
be 2 active partitions running at the same time......A data storage
drive does not have to be active.........That's new to me..... ;0)

I have 7 HDrives on one machine and PMagic reports the status of all
partitions as "none.".....Accept for my OS drive of course which is
active depending on which OS I'm booted to. Hmmmmm interesting, never
seen that situation before where it will appear after being made active,
thanks for posting your solution.........


--
************************************************
The Tobes of Hades, lit by flickering torchlight
The netherworld is gathered in the glare
Prince By-Tor takes the cavern to the north light
The sign of Eth is rising in the air.
By-Tor, knight of darkness,
Centurion of evil, devil's prince.

http://www.thekidfrombrooklyn.com/

 

[Jonny]

Hmmmmm, that's interesting because my understanding is that there cannot
be 2 active partitions running at the same time......A data storage
drive does not have to be active.........That's new to me..... ;0)

I have 7 HDrives on one machine and PMagic reports the status of all
partitions as "none.".....Accept for my OS drive of course which is
active depending on which OS I'm booted to. Hmmmmm interesting, never
seen that situation before where it will appear after being made active,
thanks for posting your solution.........


--
************************************************
The Tobes of Hades, lit by flickering torchlight
The netherworld is gathered in the glare
Prince By-Tor takes the cavern to the north light
The sign of Eth is rising in the air.
By-Tor, knight of darkness,
Centurion of evil, devil's prince.

http://www.thekidfrombrooklyn.com/

You can have many physical hard drives on one PC. One active, primary
partition on each hard drive is plausible.
But, not needed for DI or PM. The only active partition needed is for the
OS. In this case, XP. So, he needs C: to be active only. DI 7.0 requires
XP to be running as it runs in that environment. The restore portion of DI
7.0 runs from its boot CD and doesn't care about XP disk management or
current partitions, and am assuming the OP isn't referring to this. PM can
run from boot media.