Foreign Disk Import

S

Scott

My system drive is in the last stages of crashing and I've
successfully reinstalled XP Pro many times on the new
replacement drive. However, no matter what I try, the
newly installed system will not fully recognize my data
drive (200gb Western Digital with a single partition of
200gb as a dynamic disk).

I am using the Promise Ultra 100TX-2 controller card (this
is the only drive attached to the card) and have installed
the XP drivers from WDC's website. When I import the
foreign disk (with an OK status), XP properly sees it as
186.1gb but it sees it as unallocated space and will not
recognize the volume that already exists on the drive. I
have been able to get the old system drive to boot once
more and it recognizes the drive and the volume and I can
access the data on the data drive so I know the volume
still exists. Everything I've found on MS's website leads
me to believe that all I have to do is simply "import the
foreign disk" but I'm obviously missing something. Any
help would be greatly appreciated!
 
J

J Chin

I'm having the same problem with my 2 drive system.

Did clean Install of XP on the boot drive and my data
drive went AWOL.

The data on it is still intact but is not recognized under
win XP.

Short of buying another hard drive and transfering the
data off and reformating the data drive, I have no idea
what to do. Must be a common problem but still no solution
thus far.
 

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