New motherboard will not recognize old secondary drive on laptop

[JDS]

I have a Dell Latitude C810 Laptop running Windows XP.

Dell service replaced the primary hard drive, motherboard, and memory
recently.

After re-installing Windows XP on the new primary hard drive the system
will not recognize my secondary removable hard drive.

Disk 0 (primary) is fine but my Disk 1 secondary drive is listed as a
foreign (dynamic) drive.

This same secondary drive worked fine on this laptop prior to the
motherboard change. The secondary drive is formatted FAT32.

The secondary drive was never setup as a dynamic drive to my knowledge.

Windows XP will not Import Foreign Disks on a LAPTOP. MS KnowledgeBase says
a desktop will import a dynamic foreigh drive using Disk Management.

While it appears I can convert a dynamic disk to a basic disk this also
appears to delete all data on the disk.

How can I access my secondary disk without loosing all the data on the
Secondary drive?

Can I somehow convince Windows XP that the laptoip is a desktop so I can
import the forieng drive ?

Thanks in advance for your feedback.

John

 

[Jim Macklin]

Open the BIOS and see what the drive settings are, they
should both be enabled or at least set to automatic.


| I have a Dell Latitude C810 Laptop running Windows XP.
|
| Dell service replaced the primary hard drive, motherboard,
and memory
| recently.
|
| After re-installing Windows XP on the new primary hard
drive the system
| will not recognize my secondary removable hard drive.
|
| Disk 0 (primary) is fine but my Disk 1 secondary drive is
listed as a
| foreign (dynamic) drive.
|
| This same secondary drive worked fine on this laptop prior
to the
| motherboard change. The secondary drive is formatted
FAT32.
|
| The secondary drive was never setup as a dynamic drive to
my knowledge.
|
| Windows XP will not Import Foreign Disks on a LAPTOP. MS
KnowledgeBase says
| a desktop will import a dynamic foreigh drive using Disk
Management.
|
| While it appears I can convert a dynamic disk to a basic
disk this also
| appears to delete all data on the disk.
|
| How can I access my secondary disk without loosing all the
data on the
| Secondary drive?
|
| Can I somehow convince Windows XP that the laptoip is a
desktop so I can
| import the forieng drive ?
|
| Thanks in advance for your feedback.
|
| John
|
|

 

[JDS]

Thanks.
BIOS recognizes the drive in the modular bar (floppy disk slot).

It's Windows XP that will not read the drive.
Disk Management sees the drive but says the secondary drive is a "dynamic"
foreign drive.
PartitianMagic sees the drive but will not let me perform any operations on
the drive.

A desktop system would allow me to "import" the dynamic drive but this
option is turned off on Laptops.
I can convert the dynamic drive to a basic drive but this will delete all my
data.