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boris
Repost...someone has to be good enough to figure this out
Basics:
80Gb Sys drive, fresh XP Pro re-install
200Gb WD Caviar drive
Promise Technology Ultra T2 controller card
PROBLEM: Disk Management sees extra drive, does not give volume label
(which was there before reinstalling), file system verification (just
blank), or accurate free space (capacity = free space...data
definitely seen by another computer, so still there).
SOLUTIONS ATTEMPTED:
1) Card recognizes another one of my drives (200Gb), so doubt it is
the card
2) Attempted to update driver from Promise for the SCSI & RAID
Controller category under which Device Manager is listing it). Would
not allow me to do so.
3) Don't think it's a BIOS issue because the drive is definitely seen
at startup and any updated to the BIOS would have been there before
the Windows reinstall
Have another post here which was answered with suggestion to
"Reinitialize" the drive under disk management, but that option is not
there (at least not in that name). Am hopeful "reinitialize" does not
mean reformat, as the data is definitely there and working, at least
on one machine. So seems to be something with my setup.
Thanks tons for any help.
Basics:
80Gb Sys drive, fresh XP Pro re-install
200Gb WD Caviar drive
Promise Technology Ultra T2 controller card
PROBLEM: Disk Management sees extra drive, does not give volume label
(which was there before reinstalling), file system verification (just
blank), or accurate free space (capacity = free space...data
definitely seen by another computer, so still there).
SOLUTIONS ATTEMPTED:
1) Card recognizes another one of my drives (200Gb), so doubt it is
the card
2) Attempted to update driver from Promise for the SCSI & RAID
Controller category under which Device Manager is listing it). Would
not allow me to do so.
3) Don't think it's a BIOS issue because the drive is definitely seen
at startup and any updated to the BIOS would have been there before
the Windows reinstall
Have another post here which was answered with suggestion to
"Reinitialize" the drive under disk management, but that option is not
there (at least not in that name). Am hopeful "reinitialize" does not
mean reformat, as the data is definitely there and working, at least
on one machine. So seems to be something with my setup.
Thanks tons for any help.