Can't read two of my hard drives

[James L. Sims]

I have recently installed an IDE controller and added three more hard
drives. I placed the older and smaller hard drives on the new
controller card. Since my CD-ROM drive letter was not the highest
letter, I rearanged the drive letters so as to make the CD-ROM the
highest drive letter. Now two of my hard drives are unreadible.
Everything looks good in post but I can't read them in Win2K.

I think one drive is FAT32 and the other may be NTFS.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

Jim

 

[Guest]

Go to: START, SETTINGS, CONTROL PANEL, ADMINISTRATIVE TOOLS, COMPUTER
MANAGEMENT

Select DISK MANAGEMENT on the left

Are the drives showing up as active? If not, right-click them & make them
ACTIVE

 

[Guest]

You might also try to "re-scan" your drives from the computer management
console.

 

[James L. Sims]

I looked in Disk Management and the drive is active. However, there
is no indication of file type - FAT32 nor NTFS, that column is blank
on the unreadable drive. I would assume that I have a bad drive but
this happened to two drives at the same time after I added the IDE
controller. There were three drive on this controller card. One reads
fine. I've switched the drives around and the two unreadable drives
are unreadable no matter which controller and where they are located.

I can't believe that both drives went bad at the same time.

Any ideas?

Jim

 

[Guest]

rAnother thing you might check, and I know this sounds trivial, but make sure
you have you "master" & "slave" settings correct for the IDE drives.