SATA not recognized

[Doug Cornett]

Have a Dell 8300 with IDE primary drive and SATA secondary. IDE crashed,
reinstalled XP now SATA is not recognized in XP (it is in BIOS) I do not
want to format,fdisk, or anything of the sort. I have files I want to save
on the SATA drive. Any suggestions? Every once in a while when XP boots it
runs CHKDSK on the SATA drive so it knows it's there, but I cannot see it
from within XP...
No my other computers do not have SATA support, so I can't just pop it in
another one and save the files.

 

[Doug Cornett]

OK, now I'm really upset. After Windows Update to SP2 it boots to a black
screen. Safe mode shows the SATA drive but says it is not formatted. It is
formatted NTFS, no system files at all on it, only pics and mp3's that I
want to save. I'm VERY frustrated. I know what I'm doing but this has me
baffled. The problem started when I tried to update my AVG antivirus
program to a newer version and it said there was a compatibility problem
with Roxio EZCD Creator. Link to Roxio's website listed a file to be
updated, clicked on file, said to reboot. After that black screen and no
Windows. Pulled the IDE drive and popped in another computer just to save
the files I wanted on the C: drive(IDE) Tried fixboot, fixmbr, XP bootdisk
to no avail. Finally formatted and reinstalled XP on IDE. TWICE.... Still
getting black screen reboot after updating to SP2. MBR virus? FDISK'ed the
IDE and reinstalled XP. Updated to SP2 and again black screen reboot. I'm
totally LOST....

 

[Rod Speed]

OK, now I'm really upset. After Windows Update to SP2 it boots to a
black screen. Safe mode shows the SATA drive but says it is not
formatted. It is formatted NTFS, no system files at all on it, only
pics and mp3's that I want to save. I'm VERY frustrated. I know
what I'm doing but this has me baffled. The problem started when I
tried to update my AVG antivirus program to a newer version and it
said there was a compatibility problem with Roxio EZCD Creator. Link
to Roxio's website listed a file to be updated, clicked on file, said
to reboot. After that black screen and no Windows. Pulled the IDE
drive and popped in another computer just to save the files I wanted
on the C: drive(IDE) Tried fixboot, fixmbr, XP bootdisk to no avail.
Finally formatted and reinstalled XP on IDE. TWICE.... Still getting
black screen reboot after updating to SP2. MBR virus? FDISK'ed the
IDE and reinstalled XP. Updated to SP2 and again black screen
reboot. I'm totally LOST....

Is the IDE drive bigger than 138GB ? Best to do an install
with an XP CD thats got SP2 slipstreamed in that case.

The best check for something like an MBR virus is to wipe
the drive completely using something like clearhdd and
try a clean install. Best to unplug the sata drive first.
http://www.samsung.com/Products/HardDiskDrive/utilities/clearhdd.htm

It you still get the black screen, its developed a hardware problem.