Cannot access data on a slave drive after reinstalling Windows XP

[Rich]

Hello everyone! I need your help please!!!

I came up with this great idea to put my personal/family
stuff (pics, video, doc, etc, etc) onto a separate hard
drive on my computer at home.

So, here is what I did.....

I bought a 120 GB HD and made it the Master drive.
I made my original 40 GB HD the Slave drive.
I installed XP on the 120 GB HD.

I didn't partition any of the drives and physically
double checked the configuation of the drives (Master vs.
Slave), but I now have a C, D and E drive. I checked the
properties of the drives and found that the C drive is
the 120GB, The D drive is the 40GB, but the E drive
shows, File type is "RAW", shows completely "full", but 0
bytes. Now for the best part... I can't access any of my
files on the D drive and when I click on the E drive, it
tells me that it hasn't been formatted and wants
to know if I want to do that now. I don't want to lose
all of that data, so I didn't format it.

Have you heard of anything like this? Where did I go
wrong and how can I get that data back?

Thank you for your time,
Rich

 

[Butcher]

-----Original Message-----
Hello everyone! I need your help please!!!

I came up with this great idea to put my personal/family
stuff (pics, video, doc, etc, etc) onto a separate hard
drive on my computer at home.

So, here is what I did.....

I bought a 120 GB HD and made it the Master drive.
I made my original 40 GB HD the Slave drive.
I installed XP on the 120 GB HD.

I didn't partition any of the drives and physically
double checked the configuation of the drives (Master vs.
Slave), but I now have a C, D and E drive. I checked the
properties of the drives and found that the C drive is
the 120GB, The D drive is the 40GB, but the E drive
shows, File type is "RAW", shows completely "full", but 0
bytes. Now for the best part... I can't access any of my
files on the D drive and when I click on the E drive, it
tells me that it hasn't been formatted and wants
to know if I want to do that now. I don't want to lose
all of that data, so I didn't format it.

Have you heard of anything like this? Where did I go
wrong and how can I get that data back?

Thank you for your time,
Rich
.
Rich Im still looking for a solution i just posted with

the similar issue and if i find anything I'll let you
know. my post is NOV 15 2003 3:11am if you find anything
please email me (e-mail address removed)

Thanks
Butcher

 

[Jerrytt]

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the similar issue and if i find anything I'll let you
know. my post is NOV 15 2003 3:11am if you find anything
please email me (e-mail address removed)

Thanks
Butcher *

Yes, I have heard of it. Simply try to substitute a known GOOD dat
cable as one or both sides of the cable has been affected. You'll b
amazed... je


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Jerryt