2nd Hard Drive won't Work

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Windows XP keeps giving me a message about an invalid filter driver everytime I try to install my second hard drive. Seagate, teh hard drive's vendor has been absolutely no help, nor has IBM, the machine's manufacturer. The drive used to work but after a major system crash, has not worked since. It won't let me update the driver, and I would rather not reformat the drive seeing as it has all of my music, video, and documents on it. Can anyone give me any ideas here on how to resolve this?
 
This one is most curious

Windows XP has never missed a beat for me on any type of Har Drive, even the latest Maxtor SATA hard drives

What I mean is that it has never requested a driver for installation with a HDD

Im light of this and the fact that ours is an older drive, try connecting it into a friends system: don't forget that the best way to try this is to connect it to the secondary IDE interface as a Master Drive. Run BIOS and see that it is properly identified in BIOS. Reboot into Windows, then if it is recognised on your friends PC, shut down and install a CD or DVD burner on the secondary IDE Interface as Slave

Rebbot and Copy your valuable files from the HDD to CD

Take the HDD back to your PC and install in the same manner as described above

Reformat and test if it is not now recognised. If so you have a valuable backup on CD. If not then reformat and once running again you can copy back onto the HDD from CD.
 
First, check the state of the drive. Download a diagnostic tool from Seagate
and see if the drive is showing errors. If it is, you may want to take it to
a data recovery specialist (and bring your wallet, as it ain't cheap) if the
data is that critical. If it's not critical and the drive is shot, then it's
time for a replacement.

Seagate diagnostics:
http://www.seagate.com/support/seatools/

If it shows as being ok, then look at software issues.

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers aka "Nutcase" MS-MVP - Windows
Windows isn't rocket science! That's my other hobby!

Associate Expert - WinXP - Expert Zone
 
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