hardrive works as external not when installed internally

[sacedric]

I am having an interesting problem. I recently upgraded everything on
my comp except two IDE (PATA) hardrives and my CD-rom. On the first
drive I have 2 partitions, C and D. XP Home installed on C and data
(movies pictures etc) on D. I have data (raw video) on 2nd hardrive.
When I place the 2nd hardrive (lets call it E) in a external enclosure
I can see all my folders and files no problem. However, when I take it
out of the enclosure and place it in the computer, (with jumpers set to
slave) XP sees the drive, but when I click on it it tells me it needs
to be formatted. Obviously I don't want to format it, but I also don't
want to have to have it in the external enclosure the whole time. What
am I doing wrong?
Thanks

 

[Homer S.]

I am having an interesting problem. I recently upgraded everything on
my comp except two IDE (PATA) hardrives and my CD-rom. On the first
drive I have 2 partitions, C and D. XP Home installed on C and data
(movies pictures etc) on D. I have data (raw video) on 2nd hardrive.
When I place the 2nd hardrive (lets call it E) in a external enclosure
I can see all my folders and files no problem. However, when I take it
out of the enclosure and place it in the computer, (with jumpers set to
slave) XP sees the drive, but when I click on it it tells me it needs
to be formatted. Obviously I don't want to format it, but I also don't
want to have to have it in the external enclosure the whole time. What
am I doing wrong?
Thanks

Try installing it by itself as master on the secondary IDE port. Make
sure there is no cylinder limitation jumper installed. Other than that,
I can't think of any reason for your "interesting" problem......

......One question, was the E drive originally partitioned and formatted
while it was installed in the external enclosure?

HJS

 

[Anna]

Try installing it by itself as master on the secondary IDE port. Make
sure there is no cylinder limitation jumper installed. Other than that,
I can't think of any reason for your "interesting" problem......

.....One question, was the E drive originally partitioned and formatted
while it was installed in the external enclosure?

HJS

sacedric:
When you say "XP sees the drive", what exactly does this mean?
Is that HDD reflected in Disk Management with a drive letter assigned to it?
What is shown in DM under the "Type" heading?
Are you saying the drive is listed in Windows Explorer but is empty of
folders/files? Do you mean that "XP sees the drive" because it's listed in
Device Manager?
Has this problem just arisen? Was it working properly for some time and then
all of a sudden you've encountered this problem? Any hardware/software
changes that might account for the problem?

Homer's suggestion that you connect the HDD as Master on the secondary IDE
connector is a good one. And connect it as a Slave on that secondary channel
as well.

In addition...

Using the same signal (ribbon) cable that you're currently using on the
Primary IDE connector, have you tried connecting your optical drive as a
Slave on that channel? With no problems? If there *is* a problem there, that
could indicate either a defective signal cable affecting its Slave connector
or possibly a defective problem with the IDE controller.

Naturally, we're assuming in all this that you have properly
connected/configured the HDD in question.
Anna

 

[sacedric]

Thanks for the suggestions. I will try them. What I mean by XP sees it
is that it assigns it a drive letter (E), it shows up under the
Computer Management - Disk Management - as E and says Healthy Drive and
shows it as being a 31.5 GB drive (which by the way is the amount of
free space on the drive) but it does not see the drive as being
formated either NTFS or FAT (it is formatted NTFS by the way and was
originally formatted internally with XP Pro before my mother board and
CPU got toasted by the power supply. When I have it in the external
enclosure it does show up as an NTFS formatted drive and I can access
everything on it.
Even in the BIOS it shows up as the slave on the primary IDE
connection.

thanks Again

 

[Homer S.]

Thanks for the suggestions. I will try them. What I mean by XP sees it
is that it assigns it a drive letter (E), it shows up under the
Computer Management - Disk Management - as E and says Healthy Drive and
shows it as being a 31.5 GB drive (which by the way is the amount of
free space on the drive) but it does not see the drive as being
formated either NTFS or FAT (it is formatted NTFS by the way and was
originally formatted internally with XP Pro before my mother board and
CPU got toasted by the power supply. When I have it in the external
enclosure it does show up as an NTFS formatted drive and I can access
everything on it.
Even in the BIOS it shows up as the slave on the primary IDE
connection.

thanks Again

Your best bet might be to just copy the important data from the drive
while it's set up as an external then remount it internally, wipe out
the partition(s) then re-partition and re-format it. In addition, it
would be a good idea to run the manufacturers' disk diags while you have
the chance. Who knows what weird stuff happened when your MB fried.

Good luck,
HJS