Can't explore to slave drive

[Christoph Boget]

I just had to reinstall WinXP and I'm having a problem with one of my HD's.
I have 2 HDs, one primary and one slaved off that primary. The install went
w/o a hitch but now, for some reason, XP can't explore to my slave drive.
If I open up 'Computer Management' and navigate to Storage -> Disk
Management, I see that both my HDs and both my CD drives (one a DVD drive
and one a CD-RW drive) are showing. In the top part of the dialogue, I see

Volume Layout Type File System Status
(C Partition Basic NTFS Healthy (System)
Chaos* Partition Basic NTFS Healthy (System)

* The label I gave to my slave HD

In the bottom part, I see:

Disk 0 (C
Basic 37.25 GB NTFS
37.25 GB Healthy (System)
Online

Disk 1 Chaos
Basic 27.95 GB NTFS
27.95 GB Healthy (Active)

CD-ROM 0
DVD (E
No Media

CD-ROM 1
CD-ROM (F
No Media

Originally, the CD drives had different drive letters and I changed them to
the above.

So I'm curious, if Disk Management can see my secondary/slave HD, why can't
Windows Exlorer or 'My Computer'? Is there something else I need to do to
get it so I can explore to it? I really don't want to format it as I backed
up all my old settings onto that drive. Before I reinstalled XP, I had no
problems accessing that drive...

My desktop is a Dell PowerEdge 400SC. In Device Manager, the only items
that have a yellow question mark next to them are the following:

Multimedia Audio Controller
Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller

I'm having difficulty finding the drivers for those devices and so that's
why they haven't been installed yet. Nevertheless, neither should be
causing problems with XP being able to explore to my secondary HD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

thnx,
Christoph

 

[Mungo Bulge]

Although you may have used the same user name as you had before, it is
not the same account and Win XP knows it. You now have to Take
Ownership of the files and folders on the drive D:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&sd=tech

You must be logged on to the computer with an account that has
administrative credentials. If you are running Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition, you must start the computer in safe mode, and then log
on with an account that has Administrative rights to have access to
the Security tab.

|I just had to reinstall WinXP and I'm having a problem with one of my
HD's.
| I have 2 HDs, one primary and one slaved off that primary. The
install went
| w/o a hitch but now, for some reason, XP can't explore to my slave
drive.
| If I open up 'Computer Management' and navigate to Storage -> Disk
| Management, I see that both my HDs and both my CD drives (one a DVD
drive
| and one a CD-RW drive) are showing. In the top part of the
dialogue, I see
|
| Volume Layout Type File System Status
| (C Partition Basic NTFS Healthy
(System)
| Chaos* Partition Basic NTFS Healthy
(System)
|
| * The label I gave to my slave HD
|
| In the bottom part, I see:
|
| Disk 0 (C
| Basic 37.25 GB NTFS
| 37.25 GB Healthy (System)
| Online
|
| Disk 1 Chaos
| Basic 27.95 GB NTFS
| 27.95 GB Healthy (Active)
|
| CD-ROM 0
| DVD (E
| No Media
|
| CD-ROM 1
| CD-ROM (F
| No Media
|
| Originally, the CD drives had different drive letters and I changed
them to
| the above.
|
| So I'm curious, if Disk Management can see my secondary/slave HD,
why can't
| Windows Exlorer or 'My Computer'? Is there something else I need to
do to
| get it so I can explore to it? I really don't want to format it as
I backed
| up all my old settings onto that drive. Before I reinstalled XP, I
had no
| problems accessing that drive...
|
| My desktop is a Dell PowerEdge 400SC. In Device Manager, the only
items
| that have a yellow question mark next to them are the following:
|
| Multimedia Audio Controller
| Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller
|
| I'm having difficulty finding the drivers for those devices and so
that's
| why they haven't been installed yet. Nevertheless, neither should
be
| causing problems with XP being able to explore to my secondary HD.
|
| Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
|
| thnx,
| Christoph
|
|

 

[Christoph Boget]

Although you may have used the same user name as you had before, it is

not the same account and Win XP knows it. You now have to Take
Ownership of the files and folders on the drive D:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;308421&sd=tech

That's all well and good. However, the above article pre-supposes you have
access to browse/explore the file structure on the drive. That isn't the
case
for me. The ONLY way I'm even able to see that windows is recognizing the
drive (though, not letting me access it) is through the 'Disk Management'
when
using the 'Computer Management' administration tool.

You must be logged on to the computer with an account that has
administrative credentials. If you are running Microsoft Windows XP
Home Edition, you must start the computer in safe mode, and then log
on with an account that has Administrative rights to have access to
the Security tab.

Except the only place you can get to the 'Security Tab' is via Windows
Explorer,
which won't display my slave drive. In disk management, when I right click
on
the item for the drive (Disk 1), the only options I see (depending on what
part I
right click on) are:

Properties
Delete Partition (which I really don't want to do)
Convert to Dynamic Disk
Help

Now, one odd thing I noticed when I clicked on 'Properties' -- on the
'Volumes'
tab, it is showing the 'Partition style:' as "Master Boot Record (MBR)".
Now, that
is very odd particularly because that drive hasn't been anything other than
a slave.
Is it possible that since the disk is showing as having a MBR, it's throwin
things off
and not allowing me to access it via Windows Explorer? That seems very
questionable
to me because I remember many times in the past I've taken an old primary
drive
with an old Windows installation and made that a slave so I can use it to
copy old
settings from. So I'm not sure how that could be causing a problem.

From the disk management functionality, everything about the drive seems
normal.
It's showing the right capacity, when I click on the properties, it's
showing the right
device type on the 'General' tab, it's showing the right location on that
same tab...
I'm just at a total loss as to why it's not accessable via explorer...

thnx,
Christoph

 

[Anna]

I just had to reinstall WinXP and I'm having a problem with one of my HD's.
I have 2 HDs, one primary and one slaved off that primary. The install
went w/o a hitch but now, for some reason, XP can't explore to my slave
drive. If I open up 'Computer Management' and navigate to Storage -> Disk
Management, I see that both my HDs and both my CD drives (one a DVD drive
and one a CD-RW drive) are showing. In the top part of the dialogue, I
see

Volume Layout Type File System Status
(C Partition Basic NTFS Healthy (System)
Chaos* Partition Basic NTFS Healthy (System)

* The label I gave to my slave HD

In the bottom part, I see:

Disk 0 (C
Basic 37.25 GB NTFS
37.25 GB Healthy (System)
Online

Disk 1 Chaos
Basic 27.95 GB NTFS
27.95 GB Healthy (Active)

CD-ROM 0
DVD (E
No Media

CD-ROM 1
CD-ROM (F
No Media

Originally, the CD drives had different drive letters and I changed them
to the above.

So I'm curious, if Disk Management can see my secondary/slave HD, why
can't Windows Exlorer or 'My Computer'? Is there something else I need to
do to get it so I can explore to it? I really don't want to format it as
I backed up all my old settings onto that drive. Before I reinstalled XP,
I had no problems accessing that drive...

My desktop is a Dell PowerEdge 400SC. In Device Manager, the only items
that have a yellow question mark next to them are the following:

Multimedia Audio Controller
Universal Serial Bus (USB) Controller

I'm having difficulty finding the drivers for those devices and so that's
why they haven't been installed yet. Nevertheless, neither should be
causing problems with XP being able to explore to my secondary HD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!!

thnx,
Christoph

Christoph:
Did you note that no drive letter has been assigned to your secondary drive?
See if you can assign one in Disk Management. If the "Change Drive
letter..." menu item for that disk is grayed out, then shut down the
machine, disconnect the secondary drive and boot up with your primary drive.
Then shut down the machine, reconnect the secondary drive - making sure
you've properly connected and jumpered it - and bootup again. Hopefully a
drive letter will then be assigned to that secondary drive.
Anna

 

[Guest]

Assign a Drive Letter like Anna suggested!!

 

[Christoph]

Did you note that no drive letter has been assigned to your secondary

drive? See if you can assign one in Disk Management. If the "Change Drive
letter..." menu item for that disk is grayed out, then shut down the
machine, disconnect the secondary drive and boot up with your primary
drive. Then shut down the machine, reconnect the secondary drive - making
sure you've properly connected and jumpered it - and bootup again.
Hopefully a drive letter will then be assigned to that secondary drive.

I did try that. And no, there was no change drive letter menu option
available.
The only option that wasn't greyed out was delete the partition. It turns
out that
the problem, like the cause of the issue in another post, was Norton GoBack.
It
had changed the partition type on the slave from 0x07 to 0x44. Once I
changed
the partion type back to 0x07, XP was happy to see my slave as an explorable
drive. I've had so many problems with Norton GoBack of late that I will
never,
ever install it again. It's simply not worth the migraines...

Thanks for all the help that everyone offered. I really appreciated it!

thnx,
Christoph