Vista won't read my XP HDD

[Guest]

I just got an Acer PC with a 250GB sata drive. Works fine. I put my old 250GB
EIDE drive in (all jumpers out). In disk management the EIDE drive shows up
as unreadable - I did check the EIDE with the WDC diagnostic - there's one
that works under Vista, and it says the EIDE is healthy. It was partitioned
with the WD partition program and has an XP bootable partition and a data
partition. I'd like to retain the data (a lot of work invested there) and get
rid of the XP boot partition so that I have two data partitions.

Does anyone know why Vista says the EIDE is unreadable and if it can be
fixed somehow?

 

[Frank]

I just got an Acer PC with a 250GB sata drive. Works fine. I put my old 250GB
EIDE drive in (all jumpers out). In disk management the EIDE drive shows up
as unreadable - I did check the EIDE with the WDC diagnostic - there's one
that works under Vista, and it says the EIDE is healthy. It was partitioned
with the WD partition program and has an XP bootable partition and a data
partition. I'd like to retain the data (a lot of work invested there) and get
rid of the XP boot partition so that I have two data partitions.

Does anyone know why Vista says the EIDE is unreadable and if it can be
fixed somehow?

In disk management did you check mark partition as active?
Frank

 

[Guest]

In disk management did you check mark partition as active?
Frank

In disk management, I can't do anything except look at properties. It won't
let me touch the disk in any way. Very frustrating

 

[Richard Urban]

WD drives are jumpered as a master, a master with a slave or as a slave. The
slave needs a jumper also. Why did you remove them all. Look at the jumper
diagram and jumper accordingly.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
(For email, remove the obvious from my address)

 

[Steve Easton]

Set it to cable select.
I have a dual boot system with XP Pro on one drive and Vista on the other.
Works just fine.

 

[philo]

In disk management, I can't do anything except look at properties. It
won't
let me touch the disk in any way. Very frustrating

a good thing too...or you'd end up loosing all your data.

anyway you should *not* have pulled all the jumpers out...
you need to jumper it correctly as master or slave (or cable select) as
appropriate for your setup

 

[Guest]

It worked... thanks all - saved me a world of frustration and a lot of work.