Slave drive showing "not formatted after OS reinstall"

[Larry]

I am working on a friends computer, we reinstalled the XP
Home Edition OS. After getting the system back up and
running we are unable to access the slave hard drive. He
may have had the blaster worm, we are not sure. The
system would not boot at all and went right into a fatal
bloue screen error. In anycase, now the slave drive is
showing heatly in Dish Mgmt. but when we try to access
it, it shows a error that "the drive is not formatted"
anyone know why this is happening all the sudden?

 

[mrdancer]

I am working on a friends computer, we reinstalled the XP
Home Edition OS. After getting the system back up and
running we are unable to access the slave hard drive. He
may have had the blaster worm, we are not sure. The
system would not boot at all and went right into a fatal
bloue screen error. In anycase, now the slave drive is
showing heatly in Dish Mgmt. but when we try to access
it, it shows a error that "the drive is not formatted"
anyone know why this is happening all the sudden?

Did his slave drive initially have any sort of MBR or drive overlay
installed? These can be installed via third-party utilities such as GoBack,
DriveImage, Ghost, PartitionMagic, etc. or by the installation utility to
originally install the HDD, if one was used.

If that is the case, and the slave is still bootable, best solution is to
boot it back up as the Master drive, uninstall any third-party utilities
that might be affecting the MBR (master boot record) and check that no drive
overlays (such as EZ-Drive) are present. If that doesn't do the trick, you
can try the DOS command FDISK /MBR assuming that you will be able to boot
with a Win9x/Me floppy.