cant access second drive after new mainboard

[Jim Perkins]

XP PRO, Athlon 2600, 60 gig, 40 gig Western drives.
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I can't access the second hard drive,(programs), after I
installed a new mainboard. 1st drive master, second
slave, same ide channel - worked before.
Both drives work in second machine but not tested
together.
I changed mainboard because as it began to go bad the
first thing it did was loose the ability to read the
second drive then the first. It caused major problems
with OS on first drive which required using disk repair
of OS which is now back to normal.
Second disk works fine in second machine running win98.
All folders viewable.
New bios detects both drives. XP detects both drives as
well. Explorer does not! Clicking on drive letter box
says "D:\ is not accessable, parameter is incorrect".
Disk properties show both disks drive names and show
disks enabled. All destop links to second drive from
before still show but are not working.
I've tried different cable settings with no luck. This
appears to be an OS issue. The OS seems to remember non-
working second drive condition prior to OS repair??? I've
seen references to similar problems on the net but no
real solutions. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Jim

 

[J]

check the documentation on your new Motherboard. Some of
the newer systems require a different jumper setting when
you have two drives with a boot sector. Can't remember
what the setting change was, but I had a similar problem
with a MSI replacement board I installed. I think the MB
required the drives jumpers to be reset to master and CS
of all things. Had never seen this before,but worked like
a dream.
Good Luck

 

[Andre Terpstra]

XP PRO, Athlon 2600, 60 gig, 40 gig Western drives.
----------------
I can't access the second hard drive,(programs), after I
installed a new mainboard. 1st drive master, second
slave, same ide channel - worked before.
Both drives work in second machine but not tested
together.
I changed mainboard because as it began to go bad the
first thing it did was loose the ability to read the
second drive then the first. It caused major problems
with OS on first drive which required using disk repair
of OS which is now back to normal.
Second disk works fine in second machine running win98.
All folders viewable.
New bios detects both drives. XP detects both drives as
well. Explorer does not! Clicking on drive letter box
says "D:\ is not accessable, parameter is incorrect".
Disk properties show both disks drive names and show
disks enabled. All destop links to second drive from
before still show but are not working.
I've tried different cable settings with no luck. This
appears to be an OS issue. The OS seems to remember non-
working second drive condition prior to OS repair??? I've
seen references to similar problems on the net but no
real solutions. Any thoughts?
Thanks,
Jim

What do you mean by:

XP detects both drives as
well. Explorer does not!

Can you run "chkdsk D: /F" from a command prompt? If not, maybe from
Recovery Console?

Andre.