Harddisk invisible with one XP setup, visible with a second. How to make generally visible?

[Laogui32]

I have three identical Western digital 80gb drives.
All are configured as 1 or 2 NTFS partitions.
One I will call DATA, another XP-OLD, and the 3rd XP-NEW

I used to run XP-OLD and DATA as Primary and Secondary Masters
Then XP-OLD (XP 2002, SP2) started to exhibit increasingly bizarre operating
behaviour, not attributable to virus, but also not fixable
So I built a new XP on XP-NEW. All drives are in removable caddies so I can
swap them quickly.
BIOS settings are fine, Master/Slave jumpers are correct.

XP-OLD and DATA work together fine
XP-NEW and DATA - cannot see DATA, DiskManager cannot see DATA, Control
Panel Drivers sees two hard-disks
XP-NEW and XP-OLD work fine together in any combination.

How can I make XP-NEW see DATA? What are the possible causes?

Thank you for reading and thinking about my problem

 

[Radenko Zec]

Check out cable.
I hope this will help.

Hello Laogui32,

 

[Ron Sommer]

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

 

[Laogui32]

Cable is not issue, because its the same cable connected when I swap disks,
and in fact since I'm not swapping DATA disk, cable should not be of
concern - thanks.

 

[Laogui32]

That sounds like it may be fruitful - my suspicions lean in that kind of
direction.

 

[Guest]

Does the BIOS detect it correctly? Is there a CD drive attached and if so, is
it set correctly?

 

[Kerry Brown]

I have three identical Western digital 80gb drives.
All are configured as 1 or 2 NTFS partitions.
One I will call DATA, another XP-OLD, and the 3rd XP-NEW

I used to run XP-OLD and DATA as Primary and Secondary Masters
Then XP-OLD (XP 2002, SP2) started to exhibit increasingly bizarre
operating behaviour, not attributable to virus, but also not fixable
So I built a new XP on XP-NEW. All drives are in removable caddies
so I can swap them quickly.
BIOS settings are fine, Master/Slave jumpers are correct.

XP-OLD and DATA work together fine
XP-NEW and DATA - cannot see DATA, DiskManager cannot see DATA,
Control Panel Drivers sees two hard-disks
XP-NEW and XP-OLD work fine together in any combination.

How can I make XP-NEW see DATA? What are the possible causes?

Thank you for reading and thinking about my problem

It sounds like at some point a drive overlay program may have been
installed. When initially installing the two original drives did you use the
software provided by Western Digital to partition the drives?

 

[Laogui32]

Maybe Solved...
I've rejigged everything, and now in DiskManager I can see a Disk1, which
shows up as 'Foreign Disk' with no partitions
So I right clicked and tried 'Import Foreign Disk' and voila!

 

[Laogui32]

Thanks - yes all CDs DVDs etc OK, BIOS ok...
See my other reply here - XP finally found a 'foreign disk as disk 1, and
provided an 'import foreign disk option, which revealed the two NTFS
partitions

 

[Kerry Brown]

Maybe Solved...
I've rejigged everything, and now in DiskManager I can see a Disk1,
which shows up as 'Foreign Disk' with no partitions
So I right clicked and tried 'Import Foreign Disk' and voila!

Is the drive showing as dynamic? It sounds like it was converted to dynamic
at some point.