2nd hard drive disappeared after Win 2K -> XP install

[Steve Davies]

Hi,

I'd been running two hard drives on my Win 2K machine for
months without a hitch. Both were formatted as NTFS,
single partition each. Nothing fancy.

After installing XP, I noticed my D: drive didn't
appear. When I reboot into Win 2K, it shows up fine.
XP's disk management recognizes that there is a "dynamic"
volume of type MBR but won't read it.

Is there any way to make Win XP see this hard drive
without reformatting it?

More info from my original post last night (7:35 PM) is
below. I still haven't solved the problem or found a KB
article dealing with this. Can anyone help?

Thanks,
Steve.


Subject: Re: 2nd hard drive disappeared after XP install
From: "The Computer Lab" <[email protected]>
Sent: 10/7/2003 9:27:28 PM




The only difference I see is that the D drive is a
dynamic drive. Is there
anything you must do in Disk Manager to adapt it to XP?
I don't remember
what the rules are about dynamic drives.

John

I just installed Win XP Home OEM to my computer C:
drive. Two hard drives are installed on the primary IDE
connector (Master C + Slave D). They have been working
correctly for months in this configuration.

Windows XP installed successfully, and the D: drive no
longer appeared in Explorer.

In the Device Manager, under "Disk Drives" I can see both
hard drives listed. If I click the Volumes tab, and
Populate, the following appears:

WD120GB (West. Dig. 120GB HD -- doesn't show in Explorer)
Disk: Disk1
Type: Dynamic
Status: Foreign
Partition Style: MBR
Capacity: 0 MB
Unallocated space: 0 MB
Reserved space: 0 MB
Volumes: (empty)

For the correctly working C Drive, here are the stats:

WD80GB (Working correctly)
Disk: Disk0
Type: Basic
Status: Online
Partition Style: MBR
Capacity: 76309 MB
Unallocated space: 0 MB
Reserved space: 0 MB
Volumes: 80GB (C 76309 MB

If I reboot to Windows 2000 I can see both drives again,
but as soon as I let the PC normally start up to Windows
XP, only C: is visible.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Steve Davies

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[Jeff]

Something similar happened to me. After SIX cumulative
hours on the phone with MS, it was determined that we had
to reformat the drive in order for it to be recognized.
Fortunately, I had backups of all important documents on
my second drive (D. My problem had been escalted up
the food chain within MS, so I wasn't dealing with a
novice computer tech. He was totally perplexed (which is
a bit scary!)... Good Luck!